1995: Norman Wisdom
29 April 2013: Sébastien Loeb, rally driver
September 1981: Peter Allen, songwriter and entertainer
July 1983: Robert de Castella, marathon runner
September 1987: Canberra Raiders, rugby league team
August 1988: Canberra Cannons, basketball team
September 1989: Canberra Raiders, rugby league team
June 1997: ACT Brumbies, rugby union team
November 1999: Wallabies, Australia's national rugby union team
2000: Canberra Capitals, women's basketball league team
October 2000: Australia's Paralympic team
7 September 2004: Petria Thomas, Olympic swimmer, and Katrina Powell, Olympic field hockey player
19 October 2004: Mick Keelty, Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police
December 2005: Michael Rogers and Oenone Wood, cyclists
1 April 2006: Scout Association of Australia, ACT Branch, in recognition of the branch's 25th anniversary
6 September 2006: Jason Croker, rugby league footballer
5 October 2007: Carrie Graf, basketball coach
23 February 2012: Canberra United FC, women's football team
27 October 2010: Fabrice Lapierre, long jumper
28 April 2012: Andrew Scipione, Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force
7 May 2012: Central Coast Mariners FC
8 September 2012: Tom Slingsby, sailor
17 October 2012: Liesl Tesch, wheelchair basketball player and sailor
20 June 2010: Betty Cuthbert, athlete
17 February 2011: Nathan Cayless, rugby league footballer
19 March 2011: Altiyan Childs, singer-songwriter. Childs' key was revoked in 2012, after he was found guilty of driving under the influence of drugs.
2006: Karen Murphy, bowls player
17 December 2008: Brett Stibners, wheelchair basketball player
26 August 2012: David Smith, sprint canoeist
24 May 1967: John Cadwallader, on behalf of the Bank of New South Wales
24 August 1971: Evonne Goolagong Cawley, tennis player
8 January 1987: Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist
1998: Jørn Utzon, architect of the Sydney Opera House
3 October 2000: Australia's Olympic team
15 May 2003: Sydney Kings, basketball team
10 December 2003: Aung San Suu Kyi, political prisoner
17 December 2003: Nicole Kidman, actress
15 September 2004: Australia's Olympic team
30 September 2005: Sydney Swans, Australian rules football team
15 September 2008: Australia's Olympic team
30 September 2008: Australia's Paralympic team
10 July 2011: Lady Gaga, singer
21 August 2012: Australia's Olympic team
9 November 2012: Australia's Paralympic team
17 October 1987: Wayne Gardner, Grand Prix motorcycle racer
2 April 2006: Kerryn McCann, marathon runner
4 October 2010: St. George Illawarra Dragons, rugby league football club
25 March 2012: Mat Campbell, basketball player
1985: Brisbane Bullets, basketball team
1992: Leroy Loggins, basketball player
1992: Brisbane Broncos, rugby league team
1998: Clem Jones, 8th Lord Mayor of Brisbane
1998: Mick Doohan, Grand Prix motorcycle racer
1999: Australian Wallabies, national rugby union team
1999: Pat Rafter, tennis player
1999: Vicki Wilson, netball player
2000: Queensland Bulls, cricket team
2001: Brisbane Lions, Australian rules football club
2002: Steven Bradbury, speed skater
2004: Queensland athletes from Australia's Olympic team
2006: Queensland athletes competing in the 2006 Commonwealth Games
2006: Queensland athletes from Australia's Winter Olympic team
2007: Venerable Master Hsing Yun, Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order
2008: Leigh Matthews, Australian rules footballer
19 September 2008: Australia's Olympic team
29 September 2008: Queensland athletes from Australia's Paralympic team
18 June 2010: Jude Munro, former CEO of Brisbane City Council
15 March 2011: Brisbane Roar FC
25 May 2011: Queensland Firebirds, netball team
11 July 2011: Queensland Reds, rugby union team
4 September 2011: Darren Lockyer, rugby player
24 August 2012: Australia's Olympic team
August 2016: Australian Women's Olympic Sevens Team
10 December 2010: Allan Davis, cyclist
30 August 2008: Five athletes who won medals in the 2008 Olympics – Lyndsie Fogarty, sprint canoeist; Lara Davenport, swimmer; Duncan Free, rower; Emma Snowsill, triathlete; and Ken Wallace, sprint canoeist
19 September 2011: Sam Stosur, tennis player, and Sally Pearson, hurdler
18 June 2011: Shane Watson, cricketer
October 2008: Christopher Scott, Paralympic cyclist
17 October 2012: Eleven athletes who competed in the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics – Jesse Ross, boxer; Mitch Larkin, swimmer; Samantha Reid, synchronised swimmer; Frankie Owen, synchronised swimmer; Damon Kelly, weightlifter; Genevieve LaCaze, steeplechaser; Alicia Coutts, swimmer; Bill Latham, basketball player; Lyndsie Fogarty, sprint canoeist; Mitchell Watt, long jumper; and Torita Isaac, track-and-field athlete
28 October 2013: Dami Im winner of the 2013 (fifth season) series of The X Factor Australia, was named the cultural ambassador for Logan City and was offered the key to the city by mayor Pam Parker within hours of clinching the title. Im was presented with the key at a ceremony on 4 December 2013.
5 July 1988: Pelé, footballer
November 1990: Cher, an American singer and actress, was awarded the Key to Adelaide after she performed at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix. In April 2012, the key was sold on eBay for US$95,900, causing city officials in Adelaide to express their disappointment. Cher was equally upset, explaining on Twitter that her office "fkd up".
7 December 1993: John Fitzgerald, tennis player
18 February 2004: J. M. Coetzee, author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
25 October 2004: Rupert Murdoch, media mogul
7 February 2009: Adelaide United FC
30 June 2010: Cheong Liew, chef
11 January 2012: Lance Armstrong, cyclist, was granted the Key to the City in recognition of his efforts to promote the previous year's Tour Down Under. Adelaide's mayor, Stephen Yarwood, visited Armstrong's hometown of Austin, Texas to personally present him with the Key, but Armstrong was in Mexico at the time, so the Key was sent to him by courier instead. On 30 October 2012, Adelaide City Council announced that Armstrong would be stripped of this honour (although the key would not be physically retrieved), after he was found guilty by the United States Anti-Doping Agency of using performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career.
16 May 2006: Josip Skoko, soccer player
1982: Dean Lukin, weightlifter
12 November 2003: Tony Šantić, thoroughbred racer, and his second wife, Christine
16 November 2012: Daniel Geale, boxer
2 May 2001: Steve Moneghetti, long-distance runner
7 May 1983: Cliff Young, winner of the first Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon
3 October 2007: Geelong Football Club
30 November 2011: Cadel Evans, cyclist and Tour de France winner
30 September 2008: Hawthorn Football Club
21 September 2012: Jannik Blair, wheelchair basketball player
Freedom of the City recipients:
3 December 1956: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
8 November 1958: William Slim, 13th Governor-General of Australia
28 March 1963: Dallas Brooks, 19th Governor of Victoria
1966: Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia
28 July 1969: Richard Casey, 16th Governor-General of Australia
Key to the City recipients:
18 July 1987: Pat Cash, tennis player
29 April 2003: Elisabeth Murdoch, philanthropist
23 August 2006: Dame Edna Everage, a character created by Barry Humphries
1 September 2006: The Seekers, pop group
9 April 2010: Lou Richards, Australian rules footballer
26 January 2008: Leigh Adams, motorcycle speedway rider
Auckland
4 November 2015: Richard McCaw ONZ, New Zealand All Blacks Captain.
15 August 2016: Te Arikinui Kiingi Tuheitia KStJ, GCCT, KCLJ, Māori King 2006–Present.
29 September 2016: Gordon Chesterman MNZM, New Zealand Businessman and Deputy Mayor of Hamilton 2010–2016.
2002: Sir Peter Jackson ONZ KNZM, New Zealand Academy Award Winning Film Maker.
Keys to the City are awarded in Brampton, Burnaby, Mississauga, Toronto, Winnipeg, Windsor, and Vancouver. Winnipeg also offers honorary citizenship, while Calgary's ceremony is the White Hat Ceremony.
5 September 2010: Graeme Sawyer, Lord Mayor of Darwin, Australia (Haikou's sister city)
30 March 1994: Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana
8 March 2000: Abderrahmane Youssoufi, Prime Minister of Morocco
24 April 2000: David de Ferranti, World Bank vicepresident
12 July 2000: Nicolás Léoz, President of CONMEBOL
5 April 2001: Vicente Fox, President of Mexico
3 May 2001: Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
11 November 2003: Ricardo Maduro, President of Honduras
2 December 2003: Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, President of Uruguay
29 March 2004: Chavela Vargas, Mexican singer
14 April 2004: Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru
21 July 2004: Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain
11 October 2004: Didier Borotra, Member of the Senate of France
16 November 2004: Óscar Berger, President of Guatemala
30 March 2005: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain
1 September 2005: Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile
4 November 2005: Leonel Fernández, President of the Dominican Republic
13 December 2005: Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
12 March 2007: Horst Köhler, President of Germany
17 March 2008: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
27 May 2009: Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias
13 August 2009: Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico
15 August 2009: Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
23 March 2010: Óscar Arias, President of Costa Rica
9 July 2010: Princess Haya of Jordan
10 October 2011: Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority
24 November 2011: Susana Villarán, Mayor of Lima
14 March 2012: Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
3 June 2013: Xi Jinping, paramount leader of China
1710–1841
24 July 1723: William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin
24 June 1728: Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry
8 June 1732: Edward Southwell, Principal Secretary of State for Ireland
27 July 1732: John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery
20 January 1736: Jonathan Swift, satirist, author, poet and cleric
17 May 1736: Robert Clayton, Bishop of Cork and Ross
16 March 1740: John Bowes, Attorney-General for Ireland
18 August 1743: Richard Mounteney, baron of the exchequer
1 January 1745: Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
14 July 1752: James FitzGerald, 20th Earl of Kildare
27 July 1752: Peter Warren, Royal Navy officer
29 May 1755: Henry Seymour Conway, Chief Secretary for Ireland
24 December 1756: William Blakeney, soldier and 1st Baron Blakeney
28 April 1757: Alexander Colville, captain of HMS Northumberland
28 April 1757: William Holburne, captain of HMS Newark
11 April 1759: John Hely-Hutchinson, statesman
17 December 1759: William Pitt, Secretary of State for the Southern Department
22 May 1761: Charles Lucas, MP for Dublin City
26 August 1761: Francis Andrews, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
10 March 1762: Richard Aston, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
27 April 1762: Godfrey Lill, MP for Fore
23 May 1764: William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
19 December 1765: Richard Longfield, MP for Charleville
19 December 1765: Richard Townsend, MP for Cork County
18 May 1767: Studholme Hodgson, army general
9 October 1767: Eyre Massey, lieutenant-colonel
7 March 1769: Francis Mathew, MP for Tipperary
7 March 1769: Arthur Pomeroy, MP for Kildare County
7 March 1769: Barry Yelverton, barrister
16 August 1769: Sir Lucius O'Brien, MP for Clare
29 September 1769: George Macartney, Chief Secretary for Ireland
23 October 1770: John Beresford, MP for County Waterford
23 October 1770: George Beresford, 2nd Earl of Tyrone
26 July 1771: James Hewitt, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
20 September 1771: Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston
6 January 1773: John Blaquiere, Chief Secretary for Ireland
5 September 1775: Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
1 April 1778: George Ogle, MP for Wexford County
5 May 1778: Flower Mocher, Commander-in-Chief in Munster
18 January 1780: Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough
5 June 1782: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
15 November 1782: John Jervis, captain of HMS Foudroyant
18 December 1782: George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Earl and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1 April 1783: Walter Hussey Burgh, statesman and judge
25 September 1783: Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington
25 September 1783: Hugh Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland
25 September 1783: Thomas Pelham, Chief Secretary for Ireland
30 December 1784: Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland
30 December 1784: Alexander Schomberg, captain of HMS Dorset (HMS Dorset)
28 August 1787: John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk
29 July 1788: John Townsend, MP for Dingle
7 July 1789: William Foster, Bishop of Cork and Ross
23 January 1790: Robert Hobart, Chief Secretary for Ireland
19 February 1790: John Toler, Solicitor-General for Ireland
19 February 1790: Arthur Wolfe, Attorney-General for Ireland
6 July 1790: William Bennet, Bishop of Cork and Ross
8 February 1791: John Philpot Curran, MP for Rathcormack
18 June 1793: John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore
1 September 1793: William Downes, 1st Baron Downes
24 November 1794: Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire
8 July 1796: Amelius Beauclerk, captain of HMS Dryad
8 July 1796: Thomas Byam Martin, captain of HMS Santa Margarita
8 July 1796: Thomas Williams, captain of HMS Unicorn
16 July 1796: Charles Jones, captain of HMS Doris
30 December 1796: Francis Moylan, Bishop of Cork
22 January 1798: Ralph Abercromby, soldier, politician and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland
27 September 1798: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
16 October 1798: Charles Vereker, MP for Limerick City
17 October 1798: Gerard Lake, Commander-in-Chief of India
5 September 1800: Charles Lennox, army general
10 December 1816: Henry Sheehy Keating, British Army officer
10 June 1838: Richard Roberts, captain of SS Sirius, the first steamship to cross from Europe to America
1887 – present
15 July 1887: Patrick Collins, lawyer and member of the United States Congress
10 January 1902: John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party
29 August 1902: Patrick Francis Moran, Archbishop of Sydney
5 September 1902: Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist
24 November 1904: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Irish nationalist
22 June 1906: Douglas Hyde, journalist and Irish language scholar
12 June 1908: Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
21 May 1909: Matthew Cummings, President of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
20 October 1911: Redmond John Barry, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
10 May 1912: Peadar Ua Laoghaire, writer and Catholic priest
25 April 1913: Ignatius O'Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
10 January 1919: Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
6 August 1920: Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne
27 August 1920: Robert Spence, Archbishop of Adelaide
16 July 1930: Paschal Robinson, papal nuncio to Ireland
8 September 1948: Seán T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland
16 June 1953: John D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
26 August 1958: Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston
13 August 1962: Michael Browne, Cardinal and Master of the Order of Preachers
28 June 1963: John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
16 June 1965: William Conway, Cardinal and Primate of All Ireland
31 March 1973: Éamon de Valera, 3rd President of Ireland
4 December 1973: Timothy Manning, Cardinal and Archbishop of Los Angeles
28 April 1978: Aloys Fleischmann, composer, conductor and professor
16 March 1985: Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
23 February 1991: Mary Robinson, 7th President of Ireland
8 May 2004: John Hume, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
14 June 2005: Sonia O'Sullivan, Olympic medal-winning athlete, and Roy Keane, footballer and manager
30 May 2006: Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland
2 June 2007: Michael Flatley, dancer
20 June 2008: Albert Reynolds, former Taoiseach, and John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
11 June 2010: Peter Barry, politician and businessman
27 May 2011: Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, hurler and Gaelic footballer
24 April 2014: Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland.
26 June 2006: Shay Given, Republic of Ireland Goalkeeper.
25 June 2007: Patrick Joseph Bonner, Celtic and Republic of Ireland Goalkeeper.
20 May 2008: Phil Coulter, Irish Musician.
23 June 2012: Daniel O'Donnell, Irish Singer.
Notable recipients of the Freedom of Galway include:
31 August 1939: Douglas Hyde, 1st President of Ireland
3 October 1946: Éamon de Valera, political figure
13 December 1950: Seán T. O'Kelly, 2nd President of Ireland
1 February 1954: Gerald Patrick O'Hara, Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain
26 October 1957: John D'Alton, Cardinal and Primate of All Ireland
23 June 1961: Paolo Marella, Cardinal
30 July 1962: Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Mayor of New York City
29 June 1963: John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
15 August 1965: Richard Cushing, Cardinal
15 August 1965: William Conway, Cardinal and Primate of All Ireland
20 August 1973: Michael Browne, Bishop of Galway
30 September 1979: John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church
16 June 1983: Paulo Evaristo Arns, Cardinal
2 June 1984: Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
19 December 1995: Colm Ó hEocha, scientist and president of University College Galway
12 May 1999: Hillary Clinton, First Lady of the United States (1993–2001)
18 June 1999: John Hume, second leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party
20 May 2000: Christy O'Connor Jnr, golfer
28 June 2003: Richard M. Daley, longest-serving Mayor of Chicago
16 June 2005: Aung Sang Suu Kyi, political prisoner
15 June 2006: Garry Hynes, theatre director
11 May 2012: Michael D. Higgins, 9th President of Ireland
1906: Douglas Hyde, Irish language scholar
3 November 1910: Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart
12 March 1917: George Noble Plunkett, MP and Irish nationalist
August 1947: John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin
22 November 2008: Brian Cody, hurling manager, and Seamus Pattison, former Ceann Comhairle
19 May 2009: Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland
Several recipients of the Freedom of Limerick in the years 1900 to 1902 were Boers – Britain's enemy during the Second Boer War. Limerick's city council, at the time composed mostly of Irish nationalists, sympathised with the Boers, and in an expression of solidarity, granted the Freedom to three Boer generals (Louis Botha, Christiaan de Wet, and Koos de la Rey), the presidents of two Boer-ruled countries (Paul Kruger and Martinus Theunis Steyn), and Captain William O'Donnell, an Irish-born soldier fighting on the side of the Boers. None of these six men visited Limerick to have the Freedom officially conferred upon them, and their names are therefore absent from the roll of freemen.
Other notable recipients of the Freedom of Limerick include:
1 January 1877: Isaac Butt and Richard O'Shaughnessy, MPs for Limerick City
14 July 1880: Charles Stuart Parnell, MP
1881: John Dillon, MP
14 April 1884: Michael Davitt, social campaigner, Edmund Dwyer Grey, MP for Carlow County, and Charles Dawson, MP for Carlow Borough
4 October 1886: William Gladstone, MP for Midlothian
13 June 1887: William O'Brien, MP for North East Cork
2 January 1888: Timothy Daniel Sullivan, author of the national hymn "God Save Ireland"
3 February 1888: George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
3 February 1888: John Morley, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne
8 June 1894: Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, wife of the Governor General of Canada
14 June 1894: Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
2 March 1899: Tom Clarke, revolutionary leader
16 June 1900: Thomas Myles, President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
13 December 1900: Maud Gonne, Irish nationalist and revolutionary
1900: Paul Kruger, President of the South African Republic
4 September 1902: Louis Botha, Christiaan de Wet, and Koos de la Rey, Boer generals, and Martinus Theunis Steyn, President of the Orange Free State
20 October 1903: Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist
2 October 1908: Joseph O'Mara, opera singer
7 December 1908: Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven. His name was struck from the roll on 2 May 1918, after he spoke out in support of conscription during the First World War; the City Council voted to posthumously restore the honour in July 2007.
5 June 1909: Douglas Hyde, founder and president of the Gaelic League
3 August 1916: Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick
5 September 1918: Kathleen Clarke, founding member of Cumann na mBan, Eoin MacNeill, co-founder of the Gaelic League, and Éamon de Valera, leader of Sinn Féin. De Valera and Clarke did not visit Limerick to receive the Freedom in person until 5 December 1921.
5 August 1925: Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne
21 July 1928: Willem Marinus van Rossum, cardinal
21 July 1928: Paschal Robinson, papal nuncio to Ireland
21 April 1932: Richard Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool
27 February 1936: Dermod O'Brien, honorary president of the Royal Hibernian Academy
22 March 1948: Seán Keating, artist
24 March 1948: Seán T. O'Kelly, 2nd President of Ireland
21 September 1953: John D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
25 June 1954: Gerald Patrick O'Hara, Archbishop of Savannah, Georgia, and papal nuncio to Ireland
15 August 1962: Michael Browne, cardinal
29 June 1963: John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
25 November 1964: Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia
12 April 1966: William Conway, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
2 April 1970: Joseph Brendan Whelan, Bishop of Owerri
18 August 1970: Robert Wyse Jackson, Bishop of Limerick
1 October 1979: John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church, Tomás Ó Fiaich, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, Gaetano Alibrandi, papal nuncio to Ireland, and Jeremiah Newman, Bishop of Limerick
30 June 1995: Edward M. Walsh, founder of the University of Limerick, Ted Russell, Mayor of Limerick, and Brendan O'Regan, pioneer of the duty-free shop concept
11 May 2001: J. P. McManus, racehorse owner, and Bill Whelan, composer and musician
15 June 2007: Terry Wogan, broadcaster
22 April 2012: Paul O'Connell, rugby union player
15 February 1953: John D'Alton, Irish Roman Catholic Cardinal.
25 June 2016: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., Vice-President of the United States.
6 February 1877: Isaac Butt, Irish nationalist
6 December 1880: Charles Stewart Parnell, president of the Irish National Land League
1 November 1881: John Dillon, Irish nationalist
18 June 1886: William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
10 September 1888: William O'Brien and Timothy Daniel Sullivan, Irish nationalists
8 July 1889: Thomas Croke, Archbishop of Cashel
12 September 1902: John Redmond, MP for Waterford City
19 October 1903: Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist
2002: Anna Manahan, actress
28 April 2009: Daniel Day-Lewis, British Actor
17 January 1953: Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1963: Carole Crawford, winner of the 1963 Miss World contest
21 June 1965: Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights activist
1987: Louise Bennett-Coverley, poet
5 August 2002: Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria, and Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana
30 June 2003: Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
27 November 2004: Herb McKenley, Olympic athlete
16 October 2006: Gladys Bustamante, women's rights activist and wife of former Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante
10 August 2008: The Jamaican branch of the Salvation Army
3 October 2008: Eight gold-medalists from the Jamaican team at the 2008 Summer Olympics: Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Melaine Walker, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Dwight Thomas, Michael Frater, Nesta Carter, and Asafa Powell
17 August 2012: Marcus Garvey, journalist and orator (posthumously)
October 1953: Leo Durocher, manager of the New York Giants baseball team
31 May 1955: Helen Keller, deafblind author and political activist
30 May 1963: John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth
15 August 1966: Edwin O. Reischauer, United States Ambassador to Japan
1 June 2013: Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA
18 July 2013: Juan Carlos I, King of Spain
Auckland
4 November 2015: Richard McCaw ONZ, New Zealand All Blacks Captain.
1973: Dame Te Atairangikaahu ONZ DBE OStJ, Māori Queen 1966–2006.
16 August 2016: Tuheitia Paki GCCT, KCLJ, OStJ, Māori King 2006–Present.
13 December 2014: David Sidwell, New Zealand Theatre Director.
Dame Malvina Major ONZ GNZM DBE, New Zealand Opera Singer.
Pippa Mahood MNZM, Hamilton City Councillor.
John Gallagher, New Zealand Philanthropist.
Dame Hilda Ross DBE, New Zealand Politician.
Sir Ross Jansen KBE, Mayor of Hamilton 1977–1989.
Brian Perry, New Zealand Civil Engineer.
26 February 2015: François Hollande, President of France
↑ – "Approved by unanimous votes"
15 November 2001: Fernando de la Rúa, 48th President of Argentina ↑
28 May 2008: Harald V, King of Norway↑
2 December 2009: Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile ↑
11 May 2010: Pope Benedict XVI ↑
20 June 2013: Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament ↑
20 September 2013: Taur Matan Ruak, President of East Timor ↑
7 June 2013: Barack Obama, US President, and his wife, Michelle. The freedom scroll was accepted on their behalf by Acting US Ambassador, Virginia Palmer.
13 November 2016: Njongonkulu Ndungane, Archbishop of Cape Town 1996–2007.
15 January 2016: Ahmed Kathrada, Andrew Mlangeni, Denis Goldberg, Defendants at the 1963 Rivonia Trial.
29 December 2016: Solly Msimanga, Mayor of Pretoria South Africa.
5 April 1986: Ferdinand Johann Lethert MBE
9 December 1995: Ernest Hugh William Mexter
11 April 2001: Dame Ellen MacArthur, British Sailor.
11 April 2007: Ross Davenport, British Swimmer.
31 October 2007: Miles Hilton-Barber, Blind British Adventurer.
11 December 2013: Philip Hogg, British Tri Athlete.
11 December 2013: David Ellis, British Tri Athlete.
7 March 2017: Hollie Webb MBE, British Field Hockey Player and 2016 Olympic Gold Medalist.
25 April 2016: Mrs. Freda Roberts MBE, Former Mayor of Aylesbury.
25 April 2016: Ellen White, England National Team Football Player
May 2006: Jack Friswell OBE DL, British Businessman Former Mayor of Banbury and Charity Fundraiser.
Barking and Dagenham
1985: Frederick Charles Jones, Barking and Dagenham Mayor 1990–1991.
29 March 2009: Inder Singh Jamu, Barking and Dagenham Mayor 1998–99.
29 March 2009: Stephen Roy Thompson, managing director of Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club.
3 February 2010: Miss Vera Reynolds.
3 February 2010: Sir Paul Grant, Headmaster of Robert Clack School.
3 February 2010: Sir Trevor Brooking CBE, Former West Ham and England Football Player.
8 April 2011: Rita Margaret Giles
8 April 2011: Sidney Kallar MBE, Barking and Dagenham Borough Councillor.
6 February 1980: Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
3 February 2015: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
2000: Harold Dennis Bird OBE, British Cricket Umpire.
2000: Rita Britton, British Fashion Designer and Clothing Retailer.
2007: Rt. Hon. Lord Mason of Barnsley PC DL, British Politician.
10 June 2016: Dr. Joann Fletcher, British Egyptologist.
10 June 2016: Ian McMillan, British Poet.
10 June 2016: David Moody, Lord Lieutenant of South Yorkshire 2004–2015.
10 June 2016: Kate Rusby, British Folk Singer
11 February 2016: Stuart Bingham, British Snooker World Champion.
11 February 2016: Max Whitlock, British Gymnast.
Basingstoke and Deane
8 April 1954: George William Willis (Borough of Basingstoke)
9 October 1958: Russell Henry Howard (Borough of Basingstoke)
2 July 1971: Oscar Clennell (Borough of Basingstoke)
2 July 1971: Harold Jackson (Borough of Basingstoke)
2 July 1971: Tom Pritchard (Borough of Basingstoke)
14 March 1974: Nellie Lane (Borough of Basingstoke)
14 March 1974: John Beadman Peat (Borough of Basingstoke)
14 March 1974: Lionel John Stroud (Borough of Basingstoke)
20 April 1989: Arthur Harry George Attwood, Local Historian and Journalist (Borough of Basingstoke and Deane)
19 October 1989: Betty Homes MBE, Local Charity Worker (Borough of Basingstoke and Deane)
3 April 1997: Jack Lennox, Borough and County Councillor (Borough of Basingstoke and Deane)
20 March 2012: Lee Westwood OBE, British Golfer.
20 March 1797: Horatio Nelson, naval officer
13 July 1911: Donald Smith, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
1921: Khengarji III, the Maharao of Cutch
13 July 1950: Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
18 October 1954: Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
November 2004: Jason Gardener, Olympic athlete
5 June 2010: Amy Williams, Olympic skeleton racer, was granted the freedom of her hometown after winning a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics, becoming the first female to receive the honour in Bath.
9 October 1902: Sir John French, British Army Field Marshal.
13 January 1942: Francis Corby, MBE.
31 March 1944: Derman William Ernest Sowter, MBE JP, Mayor of Bedford 1919, 1920, 1936.
28 April 1944: Sir George Royle Kt CBE JP Mayor of Bedford 1903.
19 July 1945: Major General Howard McMath Turner, USAF.
12 October 1949: Henry Darlow, OBE.
1 November 1960: Alderman Alfred Leonard Nicholls, MC.
16 March 1964: Alderman Richard Turner.
12 April 1972: Alderman Ronald George Gale.
12 April 1972: George Francis Simmonds.
October 1976: Alan Herbert Randall OBE JP.
4 October 1977: Frederick William Dawkes.
24 April 1993: Herr Paul Röhner, Oberburgermeister (Lord Mayor) of Bamberg.
15 January 2001: Dr. Stephanie Jayne Cook MBE, British Olympic Gold Medalist in Modern pentathlon at the 2000 Olympics.
15 January 2001: Timothy James Carrington Foster MBE, British Rower Olympic Gold Medalist at the 2000 Olympics.
15 January 2001: Paula Radcliffe, British Marathon Runner.
Herr Herbert Lauer, Oberburgermeister (Lord Mayor) of Bamberg.
10 December 2012: Etienne Stott MBE, British Slalom Canoeist Olympic Gold Medalist at the 2012 Olympics.
28 March 2013: Rhidian Gordon Goddard, Bickleigh Parish Councillor.
1 February 2013: Jennie Burgess, British Historian and Curator of the Birchington Heritage Museum.
Honorary Freedom of the City of Birmingham
October 2015: Rt. Hon. Jack Straw, British politician and Blackburn MP from 1979 to 2015.
14 October 1922: David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister
4 October 1946: Winston Churchill, Leader of the Conservative Party
16 August 1948: Bernard Montgomery, British Army officer
30 March 1990: Stanley Harding Mortensen, Former Blackpool Football Player.
9 April 2003: James Armfield CBE DL, Former Blackpool and England Football Captain and Member of the 1966 World Cup Winning Team and Member of the English Football Hall of Fame.
14 December 2005: Stephen Miller, British Paralympic Gold Medalist
10 November 1902: William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, British politician.
10 November 1902: John Pennington Thomasson, British politician.
29 September 1910: Andrew Carnegie, Scottish–American businessman and philanthropist.
25 July 1927: Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, British politician and Mayor of Bolton.
5 November 1949: Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British Army Field Marshal.
2 December 1989: Nat Lofthouse, Bolton Wanderers football player.
16 June 2001: Robert Howarth, British politician.
18 July 2016: Alison Fairman, Chairman of the "Boston in Bloom" Campaign.
31 March 2014: Jade Etherington, British Paralympic Skier.
26 July 1906: John Elmes Beale, Mayor of Bournemouth 1902–1904 and Founder of Beales Department store
1908: Sir Merton Russell-Cotes, Mayor of Bournemouth.
December 2015: Commodore Jamie Miller CBE, Royal Navy Commodore.
Rt. Hon. Lord Roberts VC KG KP GCB OM GCSI GCIE KStJ VD PC, British Field Marshal and Victoria Cross Recipient.
June 1994: Sir William van Straubenzee MBE
18 September 2013: John Nike OBE DL
1973: J. B. Priestley, novelist
1977: Black Dyke Mills Band, one of the world's oldest brass bands
21 June 2000: David Hockney, artist
6 September 2006: Brian Noble, rugby league football coach
4 November 2010: Ken Morrison, former chairman of Morrisons
17 August 2011: Bands of the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and Bridgewater (Nova Scotia, Canada) Fire Department
24 June 2013: Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa
Brighton and Hove
19 November 1898: Rt. Hon. Viscount Wolseley KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC, British Army Field Marshal (Borough of Brighton).
14 January 1903: Sir John French KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC, British Army Field Marshal (Borough of Brighton).
30 November 1920: Rt. Hon. Earl Haig KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC, British Army Field Marshal (Borough of Brighton).
7 October 1922: Rt. Hon. Earl Beatty GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO, PC, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (Borough of Brighton).
30 July 1925: Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford JP, British Politician (Borough of Brighton).
30 July 1925: Lady Ellen Thomas-Stanford (Borough of Brighton).
28 October 1926: Herbert Carden JP, Former Mayor of Brighton (Borough of Brighton).
23 September 1937: Benjamin James Saunders CBE JP, Local Philanthropist (Borough of Brighton).
3 October 1947: Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA, British Prime Minister (Borough of Brighton).
30 September 1948: Hugh Milner Black, Former Mayor of Brighton (Borough of Brighton).
19 December 1968: Miss Dorothy Stringer, Former Mayor of Brighton (Borough of Brighton).
27 July 1972: William Dodd, Brighton Town Clerk 1953–1972 (Borough of Brighton).
30 April 2009: Henry Allingham, British World War I Veteran.
13 May 2011: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Democracy Activist and Winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
24 July 2012: Steve Ovett, British Track Runner Olympic Gold Medalist at the 1980 Olympics.
July 2014: Bernard Jordan, Former Mayor of Hove and British World War II Veteran.
9 July 2013: Peter Higgs, theoretical physicist known for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson
17 December 2013: Sir David Attenborough, English broadcaster and naturalist.
10 May 1977: Douglas Ernest Breeze, Councillor and Leader of the Broxbourne Borough Council.
31 May 2000: Marco Carruba, Mayor of Sutera.
26 April 2005: Dame Marion Roe DBE, British Politician and Broxbourne MP.
18 October 2012: Laura Trott, British Cyclist, Olympic Gold Medalist 2012.
19 November 2014: Patrick Hamilton
19 November 2014: Barry Thorley
19 November 2014: Ronald Faulks
19 November 2014: Jessie Clarke
9 December 2008: Jimmy McIlroy, Burnley and Northern Ireland Football Player.
8 December 2011: James Anderson, Lancashire and England Cricket Player winner of the 2011 Ashes.
2013: Peter Pike, British Labour Party Politician and Burnley MP.
1996: Ian McShane, lead actor in the television series Lovejoy, filmed in and around Bury.
11 May 2009: Danny Boyle, British film director, producer, screenwriter and theatre director, Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director.
11 May 2009: Zoe Robinson, British Paralympic Gold Medalist in 2008.
11 May 2009: Members of the Alternative rock Band Elbow (Guy Garvey, Richard Jupp, Craig Potter, Mark Potter, Pete Turner)
24 June 2015: Mick Jelley, Boxing Coach
24 June 2015: Yvonne Moore BEM
24 June 2015: Lt. Col. Eric Davidson MBE DL, Deputy Lieutenant of Greater Manchester
13 September 2012: Hannah Cockroft, British Paralympic Gold Medalist in Wheelchair racing (2012).
1899: John Henniker Heaton, MP and postal reformer
1921: Henry Wace, Dean of Canterbury
1992: Terry Waite, hostage negotiator and former hostage
7 May 2008: Robert Willis, Dean of Canterbury
6 July 2011: Peter Firmin, co-founder of Smallfilms
31 July 2012: Dave Lee, comedian, received the honour posthumously, having died days before the ceremony was due to take place.
17 November 2012: Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury (2003–2012)
7 July 1902: HRH Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
29 January 1986: HRH Diana, Princess of Wales
Rt. Hon. Sir Bernard Braine, British Politician.
23 March 2004: Ray Howard, Borough Councillor.
June 2004: Paula Radcliffe MBE, British Olympic Marathon Runner.
September 2008: Michael Jones, Charnwood Borough Councillor.
11 December 2014: Patrick McGarry, Founder of the Tean Branch of the Royal British Legion.
21 October 1901: Dorothea Beale, Principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College.
13 December 2012: Dame Sarah Storey DBE, British Paralympic Gold Medal Winning Road Cyclist and Swimmer.
13 December 2012: Barney Storey MBE, British Paralympic Gold Medal Winning Track Cyclist.
13 December 2012: Craig MacLean MBE, British Paralympic Gold Medal Winning Track Cyclist.
13 December 2012: Niki Birrell, British Paralympic Sailor.
13 December 2012: Victoria Pendleton MBE, British Olympic Gold Medal Winning Track Cyclist.
13 December 2012: Sir Ben Ainslie CBE, British Olympic Gold Medal Winning Sailor.
2 September 2013: Beth Tweddle MBE, British Olympic Gymnast.
Cheshire West and Chester
18 December 2012: Gordon McGregor Reid, British Zoology Professor and Director General and Chief Executive of the Chester Zoo.
13 April 1955: Mrs. Louisa Phyllis Brown MA JP.
1973: His Grace The Duke of Westminster KG CB CVO OBE TD CD DL, British Billionaire Hereditary peer Landowner, Property Developer, Philanthropist and Army Reserve Major General.
9 November 1885: George Edward Gee, Alderman.
9 November 1887: Thomas Philpot Wood, Alderman.
9 January 1894: John Morton Clayton, Alderman.
3 November 1896: John Middleton.
28 September 1898: Rt. Hon. Lord Roberts of Waterford and Kandahar VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, KStJ, VD, PC, British Army Field Marshal and Victoria Cross Recipient.
9 November 1901: Edward Eastwood, JP.
9 November 1910: Charles Paxton Markham JP, Alderman.
2 July 1913: George Albert Eastwood, JP.
9 November 1918: Sir Ernest Shentall JP, Mayor of Chesterfield 1913–1919.
9 November 1923: William Rhodes, JP.
5 March 1946: George Clark JP, County Alderman.
4 March 1947: Sir Robert Robinson OM Kt PRS, President of the Royal Society.
4 March 1947: Theophilus Pearson, JP.
4 March 1947: Harry Hatton Alderman.
4 March 1947: Harry Varley Alderman.
3 April 1951: Harry Croper OBE JP, Alderman.
6 May 1952: Violet Markham CH JP, Social Reformer and Mayor of Chesterfield 1927.
1 March 1966: Frank Hadfield, Alderman.
1 March 1966: Edwin Swale CBE DFC, Alderman.
1 March 1966: Richard Clegg, OBE.
12 February 1974: James Anderson, CBE JP, Alderman.
12 February 1974: Henry Charles Day MBE, Alderman.
1 July 1980: Ralph Ambrose kennedy.
4 October 1983: Basil Barker.
4 October 1983: Irvine Roger Stillman.
2 December 1986: Canon David Ryan.
25 October 2002: William John Flanagan, OBE.
21 November 2008: Rt. Hon. Lord Varley PC DL, British Politician. (Conferred Posthumously)
21 November 2008: David Roland Shaw, British Lawyer.
17 February 2016: Major Timothy Nigel Peake, British Army Officer and Astronaut.
25 February 2016: Tony Cragg.
2 March 2013: Stephanie Millward, British Paralympic Swimmer.
1999: Rt. Hon. Marjorie Mowlam, British Politician.
1 October 2015: Ratan Tata GBE, Indian Businessman and Philanthropist.
1 October 2015: Lord Bhattacharyya Kt CBE FREng FRS, Indian British engineer, educator and government advisor.
7 February 2014: Stephen Miller MBE, British Paralympic Gold Medalist
22 September 2013: Danielle Brown, British Archer and Paralympic Gold Medalist
22 September 2013: Andrew Triggs Hodge, British Rower and Olypmpic Gold Medalist
1977: Bert Crane, Crawley Borough Councillor.
7 December 2012: Alan Quine, Former Crawley Borough Councillor.
7 December 2012: Jim Smith, Former Crawley Mayor.
Alf Pegler: Former Crawley Borough Councillor.
28 July 2013: Mr Tom Doubtfire, Creswell Parish chairman and Clerk.
28 July 2013: Mr Richard Thomas, Creswell Parish Councillor.
28 July 2013: Mr Henry Hidderley.
Crewe and Nantwich
13 August 2003: Dario Gradi, Crewe Alexandra Manager.
13 August 2003: John Bowler, Crewe Alexandra Chairman.
7 May 2016: Peter Crawley, Crookham Village Parish Councillor 1976–2016 and Former Council Chairman.
1897: Sir Frederick Thomas Edridge JP DL, Mayor of Croydon 1890–92, 1894–96 and 1902–03, High Sheriff of Croydon in 1909.
1901: Rt. Hon. Lord Roberts of Waterford and Kandahar VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, KStJ, VD, PC, British Army Field Marshal and Victoria Cross Recipient.
1902: Nathaniel Page JP, Mayor of Croydon 1899–1902.
1907: William Ford Stanley JP, British Inventor.
1907: Frederick Foss JP, Mayor of Croydon 1892–1893.
1909: Sir Reuben Vincent Barrow JP, Mayor of Croydon 1885–1886.
1911: Sir William Purdie Treloar Kt JP, Lord Mayor of London 1906–1907.
1912: James Trumble JP, Mayor of Croydon 1910–1912 and 1933–1935.
1917: Henry Keatley Moore JP, Mayor of Croydon 1906–1908.
1920: Dame Elizabeth Sara Edridge.
1920: Howard Houlder DL JP, Mayor of Croydon 1916–1919.
1920: Mary Mossman Houlder JP.
1922: Martin Taylor, Croydon Alderman.
1926: Edward George Bates.
1928: Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Lord Davidson of Lambeth GCVO, PC, , Archbishop of Canterbury 1903–1928.
1983: Rt. Hon. Bernard Weatherill PC DL K.StJ, Croydon MP and Speaker of the House of Commons.
1990: Bob Davis
1991: Mary King
1995: Zena Bullmore
1999: June Street OBE
2004: Keith Hunt
2006: Bob Parsons
2008: Julian Taunton
2011: Derek Townsend
24 September 2014: Heather Allen MBE
24 September 2014: David Furnell
24 September 2014: Daniel Zammit
31 October 2016: Max Whitlock, British Artistic Gymnast 2016 Olympic Gold Medalist.
23 May 2015: Martin Adams, British Darts World Champion.
4 May 2003: Brian Clough, former Derby County football manager
15 March 2016: Margaret Taylor, Former Mayor of Devizes.
Julian Macdonald, Former Devizes Town Clerk.
Pat Morris, Former Devizes Town Councillor.
The Most Honourable Marquess of Lothian PC QC DL, British Politician.
October 2015: Diane Guy MBE, Former Disley Town Councillor.
9 June 2014: Sarah Stevenson MBE, British Taekwondo Champion.
9 October 2013: Lenny Henry, British Entertainer.
30 November 2015: Jordanne Whiley MBE, British Wheelchair tennis Champion.
15 January 2016: David Caunt MBE, Dudley Borough Councillor.
15 January 2016: David Sparks, Dudley Borough Councillor.
8 December 2008: Bobby Robson, football manager, in honour of his services to football and charitable work
Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
Henry Allingham, British World War I Veteran.
Andrew Carnegie, Scottish American Philanthropist.
Martina Navratilova, American Tennis Player and a Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
7 January 2007: Maurice Skilton MBE, Mayor of Eastbourne 1991–1993.
31 May 2015: Reverend Canon Clive Everett-Allen, East Grinstead Church of England Clergyman.
2016: Adam Peaty, British Swimmer 2016 Olympic Gold Medalist.
1977: Peter Green, British Businessman.
1977: Sir David Price, British Politician.
1986: Frank Brown, American Archaeologist.
2005: Lord Chidgey, British Politician.
2013: Danielle King, British Track cycling Olympic Gold Medalist in 2012.
2013: David Smith, British Paralympic Gold Medalist in 2012.
Sir Cliff Richard OBE, British Entertainer.
17 April 2008: Michael Aspel OBE, British Television Presenter.
16 April 2007: Rt. Hon. Lord Graham of Edmonton PC, British Politician.
2012: Alexander Mattingly, Enfield Borough Councillor.
Epsom and Ewell
5 June 1939: Rt. Hon. James Chuter Ede CH PC DL, Mayor of Epsom and Ewell and Later Home Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons.
24 April 1953 J. Tudor Rees, British Judge and Liberal Politician.
19 December 2012: Sir David John Brailsford CBE, Performance Director of British Cycling.
2 October 2016: Robert Lindsay, British Actor
1801: Lord Nelson, British Royal Navy Admiral.
16 January 1900: Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote, MP for Exeter 1880–99, later Governor of Bombay and Governor-General of Australia
12 July 1902: John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer.
2 September 2015: Tony Rowe, Chairman of the Exeter Chiefs Rugby Team.
2015: Jo Pavey, British Long Distance Runner.
2015: Liam Tancock, British Swimmer.
1 June 2016: Frank Pennington, Frodsham Town Councillor.
4 May 2010: Jenson Button, Formula One driver, following his victory in the 2009 World Drivers' Championship
24 November 2000: Jonathan Edwards, triple jumper
20 October 2004: Brendan Foster, distance runner and founder of the Great North Run
12 October 2006: Mike Neville, newsreader
12 October 2006: Joyce Quin, Baroness
12 October 2006: Thomas Burlison, Baron and former footballer
22 January 2009: Bobby Moncur, footballer
10 February 2011: David Almond, author
10 February 2011: David Clelland, MP for Tyne Bridge
10 February 2011: John Hall, owner of Newcastle United F.C., and his wife
8 November 2011: Paul Younger, hydrogeologist and environmental engineer
24 July 2012: Antony Gormley, creator of the Angel of the North sculpture
24 July 2012: Alan J. Smith, founding chairman of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
6 November 2013: Jill Halfpenny, British Actress.
8 May 2009: Carl Froch MBE, British Boxer
11 April 2014: Alex Thomson, British yachtsman
July 1995: Eric White, Mayor of Great Aycliffe 1982–1983.
1983: Nelson Mandela
11 June 2000: Bob Hope
12 March 2012: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
13 March 2012: Doreen Lawrence
1897: Thomas Wilde Powell.
9 July 1902: F. F. Smallpiece, town clerk for 26 years.
1934: William Harvey.
Lord Baden Powell, British Army General and Founder of the Scouting Movement.
1 May 1957: Alderman Lawrence Powell MC JP MA, Guildford Borough Councillor.
12 June 1985: Rt. Hon. Lord Nugent of Guildford PC JP, British Politician.
25 March 1995: Doreen Bellerby MBE.
25 March 1995: Bill Bellerby MBE.
1 October 2003: David Watts.
22 November 2011: Andrew Hodges.
3 November 2015: Jennifer Powell, Guildford Mayor 2001–2002.
1947: Herbert William Butler, MP
Hammersmith and Fulham
19 October 2016: George Cohen MBE, Former Fulham and England Football Player Member of the 1966 World Cup Winning Team and a Member of the English Football Hall of Fame.
1926: Rt. Hon. Lord Irwin PC, British Polititician and Incoming Viceroy and Governor General of India.
30 September 1955: Sir Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
16 December 1976: Sir Horace Cutler
4 May 2004: Sir Roger Bannister, British track runner and neurosurgeon
7 July 2011: Sir Paul Nurse, English geneticist, President of the Royal Society, and co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2010: Jeff Stelling, British Sports Journalist.
2010: Rt. Hon. Lord Mandelson PC, British Politician.
2 September 2014: Sir Ronald Norman OBE DL, British Businessman and Deputy Lieutenant of Durham
Edward Leadbitter, British Politician.
1960: Sidney Little, British Civil Engineer, Hastings Borough & Water Engineer, Hastings Borough Planning Officer.
18 May 2016: Maureen Charlesworth, Mayor of Hastings 2006–2010.
Canon Hugh Dibbens
Ian Yeoman
Christine Watson
Marjorie Ramsey
Will Mills
Denis O'Flynn
Louise Sinclair
Owen Ware
Cllr Len Long
Cllr Eric Munday
Stephen Evans
Cllr Roger Ramsey
Colin Coe
Sunny Jasraj
Cllr Peter Gardner
Maisie Whitelock
Cllr Barbara Matthews
Mark Hunter
Dr. Eva Lohse
Air commodore Brian Batt. RAF
Lloyd Scott
Bob Neill
Patricia Mylod
Joyce Leicester
Sue Ospreay
Tom Horlock
Paul Binder
David King
Mark Sweetingham
Donald Poole
Theresa Murray
Frances Ridgley
Harry Matthews
1986: Glynne D. Jones.
1989: Charles D. Lewis, MBE.
1995: George A. Bingham.
1995: Francis W. Stubbs.
12 October 2004 Bradley Wiggins, British Cyclist, Olympic Gold Medalist and Winner of the 2012 Tour de France.
2007: Raymond Davies.
13 September 2012: Natasha Baker MBE, British Para-equestrian Rider, Paralympic Gold Medalist in 2012.
7 August 2015: Terry Harrington, Former Holbeach Parish Councillor and Council Chairman.
1946: George Bernard Shaw, British Author and Playwright and Winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Holymoorside and Walton
December 2014: Norman Wragg, Holymoorside and Walton Parish Councillor and chairman.
19 December 2012: Mo Farah, British Track Runner, Olympic Gold Medalist 2012.
19 December 2012: Peter Reed, British Rower, Olympic Gold Medalist 2008 and 2012.
17 September 2014: Lance sergeant Johnson Beharry, British Army Victoria Cross Recipient.
27 October 2015: Ruth Cadbury, British Politician.
27 October 2015: Paul Lynch, Hounslow Borough Councillor.
27 October 2015: Robert Whatley, Hounslow Borough Councillor.
27 October 2015: John Chatt, Hounslow Borough Councillor.
27 October 2015: Rajinder Bath, Hounslow Borough Councillor.
Tul Bahadur Pun, Nepalese Gurkha Victoria Cross Recipient.
Lachhiman Gurung, Nepalese Gurkha Victoria Cross Recipient.
2005: Alice Horne, British Centenarian and Charity Worker.
6 February 2013: Doris Cassidy, Long Time Official with the Accrington Branch of the Royal British Legion.
29 January 2015: Julie Hesmondhalgh, British Actress Best Known as Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street
13 May 2017: Geoffrey Hanson, British Businessman and Chairman of the Great Harwood Agricultural Show.
5 May 2008: Sir Bobby Robson, football manager
15 October 2008: Sir Christopher Bland, British Businessman and Politician
28 October 2004: Arsène Wenger, manager of Arsenal F.C., and Ken Friar, former managing director of the club
16 November 2010: Rt. Hon. Lord Smith of Finsbury PC, British Politician.
16 November 2010: Father Jim Kennedy, Roman Catholic Priest.
16 November 2010: Colonel Brian Kay OBE TD DL, Deputy Lieutenant of Islington.
March 2015: George Durack, Islington Borough Councillor.
Kensington and Chelsea
13 June 1979: Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
19 January 2011: Baroness Hanham, Kensington and Chelsea Councillor and Conservative life peer
23 July 2015: Lord Cadogan, British landowner and philanthropist
27 January 1980: Sir Joseph Percival William Mallalieu, British Labour Party Polititician and Huddersfield MP.
20 November 1992: Rt. Hon. Betty Boothroyd, British Labour Party Polititician and Speaker of the House of Commons.
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
16 people have been given the honour since it was set up in 1901.
1954: HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Former Royal Consort and Mother of Queen Elizabeth II.
1969: Sir John Barbirolli, British Conductor.
24 April 2015: Paul Richards, King's Lynn Historian.
1935: Joseph Rank, businessman
1987: Helen Suzman, anti-apartheid activist and politician
June 1999: Desmond Tutu, social rights activist and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town
11 November 2008: Steven Gerrard MBE, Captain of Liverpool Football Club.
June 2007: John McGuinness, British Motorcycle Racer.
9 May 2014: Cedric Robinson MBE, Queen's Guide to the Sands.
23 January 1920: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
18 October 1922: David Beatty, admiral
21 October 1922: Lloyd George, British Prime Minister
5 March 1923: E. F. L. Wood, MP for Ripon
13 March 1925: Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister, and H. H. Asquith, former Prime Minister
6 October 1926: Berkeley Moynihan, surgeon, William Middlebrook, politician, and Edward Brotherton, industrialist and politician
11 September 1930: Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Health
7 July 1932: Mary, Princess Royal
7 July 1943: H. V. Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs
28 October 1958: Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
1967: Baron Milner of Leeds, former MP and Deputy Speaker
30 April 2001: Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa
April 2004: Fanny Waterman, piano teacher
20 May 2005: Jane Tomlinson, athlete and cancer sufferer
12 March 2006: Alan Bennett, playwright
26 January 2011: Jimi Heselden, entrepreneur and philanthropist, posthumously
9 December 1971: Alan Milner Smith OBE, Lewisham Town Clerk.
28 November 1975: Frederick William Winslade CBE JP, Mayor of Lewisham 1965–68.
10 October 1985: Daisy Amelia Elizabeth Hurren, Mayor of Lewisham 1962–63.
30 March 1990: Alfred Anderson Hawkins, Mayor of Lewisham 1971–1984.
4 May 1990: The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, Anti Apartheid Activist.
16 November 1992: Terrence Hardy Waite CBE, English Humanitarian.
8 March 1996: Dame Sybil Theodora Phoenix, British Community Worker.
10 March 2000: Dame Cicely Mary Saunders, OM, DBE, FRCS, FRCP, FRCN
8 June 2007: James Leslie Hicks Eytle, Mayor of Lewisham 1984–85 and 1990–91.
2013: Dame Erica Pienaar, Former Head of Prendergast School 1998–2013.
2014: Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, Anti Violence Campaigner.
15 January 2016: Peter Young, Former Lichfield Town Clerk
20 March 2013: Celia Rochford, Little Berkhamsted Parish Councillor 1983–2007 and Councillor Leader 1986–2004.
The Freedom of Liverpool was first conferred upon the military officer Andrew Clarke on 7 July 1886. Other recipients include four-time Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone in 1892, the Beatles in 1984, and Nelson Mandela in 1994. The Freedom of the City has also been awarded to groups of people on occasion, such as the families of the 96 Hillsborough victims, and the city of New York.
24 June 2016: Cecil Nicholls, Loddon School Groundsman 1975–1990.
Anyone may apply for the Freedom of London. However, the Honorary Freedom is a much higher honour, and cannot be applied for; individuals must be invited to receive the award by the Court of Common Council. Notable recipients include William Pitt the Younger, David Livingstone, Florence Nightingale, Princess Diana, and more recently, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Annie Lennox, Ben Pinner and Stephen Fry.
Laura Page
1905: Joseph Griggs DL JP, Mayor of Loughborough 1888–1890.
1911: Thomas Mayo, Mayor of Loughborough 1899–1901, 1903–1905, 1906–1907, 1908–1911, 1913–1914.
1916: Alfred Bumpus, Mayor of Loughborough 1890–1891.
1939: Alan Moss JP, Mayor of Loughborough 1927–1929.
1946: George H. Bowler JP, Mayor of Loughborough 1924–1926.
1946: Frederic Stenson, Loughborough Alderman.
1946: Alexander Young McGhie.
1951: John W. Barker Loughborough Alderman.
1951: George H. Dean JP, Mayor of Loughborough 1938–1940.
1957: John S. Marr JP, Mayor of Loughborough 1933–1935.
1964: Alfred Perkins, Mayor of Loughborough 1944–1945.
1970: Thomas S. Fielding, LCP JP.
1970: Malcolm H. Moss.
1928: Howard Hollingsworth, British Businessman and Philanthropist Founder of Bourne & Hollingsworth
28 July 1951: Benjamin Britten OM CH, British composer, conductor and pianist
1802: Lord Nelson, British Royal Navy Admiral.
15 January 2015: John Still, Manager of Luton Town Football Club.
15 January 2015: Lord McKenzie of Luton, British Politician.
15 January 2015: Vivian Dunington MBE, Luton Borough Councillor.
24 October 2013: Sir Ben Ainslie CBE, British Sailor, 4 Time Olympic Gold Medalist.
1 June 2016: Mrs. Gillian Thompson MBE, Lynemouth Parish Councillor and Former Council Chairman.
1 June 2016: Mrs. Sarah Hannah Williamson MBE.
2002: Margaret Duddy OBE, Leader of Macclesfield Borough Council.
2002: Sir Nicholas Winterton, British Politician and Macclesfield MP.
3 December 2007: Rt. Hon. Ann Widdecombe, British Politician and Maidstone MP
6 October 1899: Enriqueta Augustina Rylands, founder of John Rylands Library
15 June 1906: William Crossley, businessman and Liberal Member of Parliament, in honour of the Stamford Park County School
9 May 1907: Prime Ministers Alfred Deakin (Australia), Wilfrid Laurier (Canada), and Leander Starr Jameson (Cape Colony)
12 September 1918: David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister
30 December 1918: Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
5 November 1926: The leaders of eight British Dominions received the Freedom of Manchester on the occasion of the 1926 Imperial Conference, along with the Maharaja of Burdwan. The eight heads of government in question were:
Stanley Baldwin (United Kingdom)
Stanley Bruce (Australia)
William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada)
W. T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State)
Walter Stanley Monroe (Newfoundland)
Gordon Coates (New Zealand)
J. B. M. Hertzog (South Africa), in absentia
8 April 1930: C. P. Scott, editor of The Manchester Guardian
1947 Winston Churchill
23 November 1967: Matt Busby, football manager (Manchester United)
31 October 1977: Bernard Lovell, astronomer
1984: Kathleen Ollerenshaw, mathematician and politician
28 February 2000: Alex Ferguson, football manager (Manchester United)
10 October 2007: Tony Wilson, music mogul
2 March 2009: Bobby Charlton, footballer (Manchester United), for promoting the city of Manchester
2 November 2009: Team GB's cycling squad at the 2008 Summer Olympics, in recognition of their seven gold medals
9 October 2013: Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, Nobel Prize-winning physicists known for their pioneering work on graphene
2008: Samuel Hynd, British Swmmer and Paralympic Gold Medalist in 2008.
2008: Rebecca Adlington OBE, British Swimmer Olympic Gold Medalist in 2008.
10 November 2016: Oliver Hynd MBE, British Swimmer and Paralympic Gold Medalist in 2012 and 2016.
10 November 2016: Charlotte Henshaw, British Swimmer Paralympic Silver and Bronze Medalist.
11 October 2010: Louise Hazel, British Track and field Athlete.
20 June 2014: Andy Murray, British Tennis Player
27 June 2014: Angela Mortimer, British Tennis Player and a Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
27 June 2014: Ann Haydon-Jones, British Tennis Player and a Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
27 June 2014: Virginia Wade, British Tennis Player and a Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
30 March 1967: L. Taylor.
26 March 1968: Right Reverend Monsignor Canon Michael O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Priest.
16 October 1974: Mrs. M.A. Daniel.
16 October 1974: Mrs. Ethel A. Gaunt.
21 December 1976: Rt. Hon. Lord Bottomley OBE PC, British Labour Party Politician and Cabinet Minister.
8 May 1981: Mr. E.A. Dickinson MBE.
9 May 1986: Mrs Rose M. Haston.
9 May 1986: Mr. Arthur Pearson CBE.
9 May 1986: Robert I. Smith.
16 June 1992: Councillor W. Ferrier MBE, Middlesbrough Borough Councillor.
16 June 1992: Councillor Miss G. Popple, Middlesbrough Borough Councillor.
16 June 1992: Mr. Len Poole BEM.
8 March 1996: Mr. John Robert Foster OBE.
15 March 2000: Alma Collin MBE.
3 December 2003: Councillor Hazel Pearson OBE, Middlesbrough Borough Councillor 1968–2015.
18 March 2004: Stephen Gibson, chairman of Middlesbrough F.C., following his team's Carling Cup victory.
30 June 2009: Jack Hatfield, British Businessman.
18 March 1982: Lord Campbell of Eskan, Chairman of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation.
19 March 2009: Dr. James Charles Marshall, British Businessman.
31 March 2011: Dame Cleo Laine, British Singer
12 November 2015: Peter Winkelman, Chairman of Milton Keynes Dons Football Club.
Frank Yendell, Morchard Bishop Parish Councillor.
26 November 2015: Neil Baldwin, Former Stoke City Football Club Kit Man
Notable recipients of the Freedom of Newcastle include:
18 July 1901: William Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, philanthropist who donated money for the building of the new Royal Victoria Infirmary
6 May 1977: Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
2 January 1980: Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster
2 January 1980: Jackie Milburn, footballer
2 June 1982: David Scott Cowper, first man to sail solo around the world in both directions
2 April 1986: Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, was granted the Freedom of Newcastle "in recognition of his services to the cause of freedom". As Mandela was imprisoned in South Africa at the time, the Freedom Scroll was accepted on his behalf by Ralph Mzamo, a representative of the African National Congress. Mandela received the Freedom in person on 9 October 1993.
2 April 1986: Andrei Sakharov, Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
30 April 1986: Bob Geldof, singer and political activist
1 July 1992: Peter Taylor, Lord Chief Justice of England
26 May 1993: Newcastle United F.C.
5 April 1995: Jeremy Beecham, former leader of Newcastle City Council
1 October 1997: Royal Shakespeare Company
6 December 2000: Nick Brown, politician
6 December 2000: Edward Short, politician
6 December 2000: Sage Group, enterprise software company
6 December 2000: Jonathan Edwards, triple jumper
9 March 2001: Alan Shearer, footballer
27 February 2004: Jonny Wilkinson, rugby union player
2 March 2005: Bobby Robson, former manager of Newcastle United F.C.
8 May 2006: Harry Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
10 July 2007: Ringtons, tea manufacturer
3 October 2007: Northern Rock, bank
14 November 2007: Harald V, King of Norway
10 February 2010: Greggs, bakery chain
13 December 2016: Brendan Foster CBE, British Long-distance runner.
13 December 2016: Sir Terry Farrell CBE RIBA FRSA FCSD MRTPI, British Architect.
13 December 2016: Olivia Grant OBE DL, Pro-Chancellor of Newcastle University 2002–2011 and Deputy Lieutenant of Tyne and Wear.
13 December 2016: Sir Leonard Fenwick CBE, CEO of the Freeman Hospital.
13 December 2016: Chris Brink FRSSAf, Newcastle University Vice Chancellor.
24 May 1979: Walter Edwin Hurford, MM, Margaret Scott, George Edward Smith
12 May 1983: John Alfred Kemp
28 November 1985: John Albert Hart, MBE
12 October 2000: Colonel Michael John Dudding, OBE TD DL, Deputy Lieutenant of Newham.
Thomas James Duncan
Squadron Leader Mohinder Singh Pujji, DFC PCS BA LL.B
15 January 2004: Irene Poole, Khizr-E-Azam
14 May 2009: Christine Ohuruogu, MBE
27 May 2010: Commander Nick Bracken, OBE, Metropolitan Police Officer.
Frances Clarke
Marie Gabriel
Michael Grier
Jack Petchey, OBE, British Businessman and Owner of Watford Football Club.
8 June 1989: HRH Prince of Wales.
8 June 1989: HRH Princess of Wales.
27 October 2014: Keith Barwell OBE, Chairman of the Northampton Saints Rugby Team.
27 October 2014: Brian Binley, British Conservative Party Politician and Northampton MP.
27 October 2014: John Dickie, Leader of Northampton Borough Council from 1991 to 2000.
1 October 2016: Matthew Langridge, British Olympic Gold Medalist
23 June 1830: Samuel Bignold, businessman and politician
29 November 2005: Colin Self, artist
25 July 2006: Ove Fundin, speedway rider
December 2007: Patricia Hollis, Labour peer
18 December 2009: Norfolk Constabulary
Other recipients of the Freedom of Norwich include playwright Arthur Miller, philanthropist Robert Sainsbury (and his wife, Lisa), Anglia TV, Norwich City F.C., and Norwich Union.
Notable recipients of the Freedom of Nottingham include:
6 November 1905: William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
29 June 1914: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
19 February 1917: Albert Ball, fighter pilot
25 October 1920: Jesse Boot, founder of the pharmacy chain Boots
12 July 1934: John Dane Player and William Goodacre Player, owners of tobacco manufacturer John Player & Sons
3 May 1965: Cecil Roberts, former editor of the Nottingham Journal
17 March 1976: Edward Ellis, Bishop Emeritus of Nottingham
17 March 1976: Doug Scott, first person to climb the south-west face of Mount Everest
28 April 1983: Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, ice dancers
23 March 1993: Brian Clough, former manager of Nottingham Forest F.C.
5 February 1997: Paul Smith, fashion designer
6 June 2008: Alan Sillitoe, author
26 September 2008: Colin Campbell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
17 October 2014: Carl Froch, World Boxing Champion
9 November 1909: Dame Sarah Lees, British politician and Mayor of Oldham
2 April 1941: Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
9 January 1946: Rt. Hon. J.R. Clynes, British politician
7 December 1960: Sir William Walton, British composer
7 July 1982: Dame Eva Turner, British dramatic soprano
17 July 2013: Rt. Hon. Michael Meacher, British politician
2016: Nicola White, British Field Hockey Player and Olympic Gold Medalist at 2016 Olympics.
15 May 2015: Christopher Symons, British Musician and Music Teacher.
Notable recipients of the Freedom of Oxford include:
22 July 1802: Horatio Nelson, Royal Naval officer
6 December 1900: Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia, British politician
3 February 1919: Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, Royal Naval officer
25 June 1919: David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Royal Naval officer
25 June 1919: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British Army officer
18 May 1931: Sir Michael Sadler, British historian
15 January 1951: William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, founder of Morris Motors.
6 June 1953: Robert Menzies, former Prime Minister of Australia
10 February 1955: Alic Halford Smith, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.
1 March 1955: Vivian Smith, 1st Baron Bicester, British merchant banker
16 January 1956: Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister
12 January 1970: Sir Basil Blackwell, Oxford bookseller
17 June 1982: Olive Gibbs, Lord Mayor of Oxford
23 June 1997: Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa
15 December 1997: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese pro-democracy campaigner (she collected the award in 2012)
21 February 2001: Colin Dexter, British author
16 September 2002: Sir Richard Doll, British scientist
12 May 2004: Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.
24 January 2007: Philip Pullman, British author
2 July 2014: Christopher Brown, British art historian
21 May 2015: John David, Pendle Borough Councillor 1986-2014 Mayor of Pendle 1992-93.
21 May 2015: Stephen Barnes, Pendle Borough Council Chief Executive 1993-2015.
25 April 1958: Sir Edward Bolitho, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.
18 April 2012: Gordon Ryall, Peterborough Coroner.
18 April 2012: Dick Preston, Peterborough Historian.
18 April 2012: Father David Jennings, Peterborough Clergyman.
19 September 2015: Wyndham Thomas CBE, British Architect.
October 1948: Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino diplomat and 5th President of the United Nations General Assembly
1946: Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister. (Conferred in 1954).
Notable recipients of the Freedom of Portsmouth include:
1898: Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
1901: Frederick Fitzwygram, MP and Baronet
1921: Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
1924: David Lloyd George, former Prime Minister
1926: Edward VIII, Prince of Wales
1927: J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
1927: William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary
26 July 1946: Bernard Montgomery, Field Marshal
12 December 1950: Winston Churchill, Leader of the Conservative Party
4 July 1968: Alec Rose, amateur sailor who circumnavigated the globe
1976: Louis Mountbatten, former Governor General of India
1979: Charles, Prince of Wales
1991: James Callaghan, former Prime Minister
1992: Diana, Princess of Wales
1995: Frank Judd, MP
2003: Milan Mandarić, business tycoon and former owner of Portsmouth F.C.
28 October 2008: Harry Redknapp, former Portsmouth F.C. manager, was awarded the Freedom of the City for his achievements in leading Portsmouth to the FA Cup in 2007-8. He was booed by Portsmouth fans at his award ceremony, having left the club for Tottenham Hotspur two days earlier.
1979: Tom Finney, Preston North End footballer
1997: Nick Park, creator of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films
20 January 2006: Andrew Flintoff, cricketer, for his contribution in the 2005 Ashes series
18 June 2016: Brian Oliver, Purleigh Parish Councillor and Council Chairman.
2006: Sir John Madejski OBE DL
17 November 2008: Robert Green, Former Liberal Democrat Borough Councillor and Mayor of Reading.
Redcar and Cleveland
Wilfred James Mannion, Middlesbrough Football Player.
3 September 1998: Rt. Hon. Marjorie Mowlam, British Politician.
23 May 2001: George Hardwick, Middlesbrough Football Player.
23 May 2001: Vera Robinson MBE, Redcar Town Historian
2004: Baroness Harris of Richmond, Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire and Liberal Democrat Life peer.
2014: Baron Crathorne, Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire. His Wife Lady Sylvia Crathorne Received the Freedom of Richmond in 2007.
21 January 2014: Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FRSB FLS FZS FSA, broadcaster and naturalist
3 March 2017: Sir David Williams, Richmond upon Thames Borough Councillor 1974-2014.
October 2002: HRH Prince of Wales.
19 May 1937: Gracie Fields, British Entertainer.
19 May 1937: Sir Samuel Turner, Founder of Turner & Newall.
26 May 2013: Lance corporal Stephen Shaw MC, Royal Army Medical Corps Military Cross Recipient.
23 April 2014: Rt. Hon. Lord Barnett PC, British Politician.
24 February 2016: Major Edmund T. Gartside TD DL, British Army Officer and Deputy Lieutenant of Rochdale
25 April 1994: Joseph Connolly, Mayor of Rossendale 1975–1976.
15 September 2010: Howard Webb MBE, South Yorkshire Police Officer and International Football Referee.
2 July 2014: Tony Stewart, Chairman of Rotherham United Football Club.
27 April 2017: Dr. James Shera MBE, Rugby Borough Councillor 1981-Present and Mayor of Rugby 1988.
1978: Harold Arthur Ives
1981: Frank Edward Worwood
1993: James Anderson Swanwick
1996: George Eric Green
2004: Raymond Cook MBE
2007: George Buckley MBE
16 July 2013: Margaret Ann Bremner MBE
22 February 2017: Andrew Lloyd, Rushmoor Borough Council Chief Executive 1996-2017.
Arthur English, British Entertainer.
July 2012: Malcolm White, Former Saffron Walden Town Clerk.
18 January 1899: Benjamin Armitage, industrialist, and Benn Levy, playwright
14 October 1922: David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister
July 1933: Frederick Smith, industrialist and philanthropist
January 1960: Edward Hardy, former leader of Salford City Council
8 June 1965: L. S. Lowry, artist
November 2004: Peter Maxwell Davies, composer and conductor
30 November 2005: Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa
7 January 2010: Ryan Giggs, Manchester United footballer, for his "exceptional contribution" to the city
Sandbach
19 May 2016: Dennis Robinson, Sandbach Town Crier and Former Sandbach Town Councillor.
Sandwell
4 April 2011: Josie Lawrence, British Comedian and Actress.
A Total of 20 Individuals and Military Units Have Been Awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Scarborough since 1974.
1986: Max Jaffa OBE, British Musician and Bandleader.
2005: Sir Jimmy Saville OBE KCSG, British Entertainer – His Freedom was revoked on 5 November 2012 in light of a sexual abuse scandal.
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, British playwright.
Paul Ingle, British Boxer.
22 June 2004: Donald McCain, English horse trainer.
23 January 2006: James Carragher, Former Liverpool Football Club Captain.
14 September 2015: Edward Swales, Former Parish Council chairman.
14 September 2015: Bill Barton OBE, Sessay representative on North Yorkshire County Council.
14 September 2015: Frank Kay, Management at Sessay Cricket Club.
14 September 2015: Harwood Stockdale, Management at Sessay Cricket Club.
14 September 2015: Brian Flintoff, Groundskeeper at Sessay Cricket Club.
18 December 1929: Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister
6 November 1930: R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada
6 June 1939: Robert Hadfield, metallurgist
5 March 1951: Winston S. Churchill, Former British Prime Minister
7 February 1979: James Callaghan, British Prime Minister
8 October 1992: Steven Bellamy, Sheffield Sportsman of the Decade.
6 February 2006: Sebastian Coe, former athlete who headed London's bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics
8 February 2006: Michael Vaughan, cricket captain, for his contribution in the 2005 Ashes series
8 March 2006: Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, in recognition of her non-violent work against the military dictatorship in Burma
29 October 2009: The Lindsay String Quartet
26 March 2013: Jessica Ennis, heptathlete, after winning a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics
19 May 2011: Anthony Reed, Former Sidmouth Council Chairman.
16 December 2008: Matthew Croucher, member of the Royal Marines and recipient of the George Cross
3 January 1901: Frederick Roberts, Field Marshal
12 July 1902: Herbert Kitchener, army general
9 November 1923: David Lloyd George, former British Prime Minister
2 April 2001: Ted Bates, former player and manager of Southampton F.C.
July 2002: Matthew Le Tissier, Former Southampton F.C. Captain
19 September 2007: Lawrie McMenemy, former manager of Southampton F.C.
16 November 2016. Francis Benali, former footballer of Southampton F.C.
9 January 1985: Albert Mussett, Southend Borough Councillor.
6 March 2017: Robert Tinlin, Southend Borough Chief Executive and Town Clerk 2005-2017.
1989: The Reverend Father James Walsh.
1991: Dame Catherine Cookson DBE, British Author.
1992: The Very Reverend Canon Wilfred Joseph Fee
1998: Rt. Hon. Lord Dixon PC DL, British Politician.
1999: Rt. Hon. Dr. David Clark PC DL, British Politician.
28 October 2008: Mr Paul Waggott, Former Leader of South Tyneside Borough Council.
7 November 2011: Jim Capstick, South Tyneside Borough Councillor.
12 May 2012: Sir Michael Caine, British Actor.
12 May 2012: Lance corporal Johnson Beharry, British Army Victoria Cross Recipient.
12 May 2012: Rt. Hon. Harriet Harman, British Politician.
12 May 2012: Rt. Hon. Simon Hughes, British Politician.
12 May 2012: Rt. Hon. Dame Tessa Jowell, British Politician.
14 May 2016: Sam King MBE, Mayor of Southwark 1983–1984.
D.J. Squire.
18 April 2013: Colin Squire.
20 September 2016: Joe Clarke, British Slalom Canoeist 2016 Olympic Gold Medalist.
1907: Sir William Purdie Treloar Kt JP, Lord Mayor of London 1906–1907.
23 May 2012: Dr. Joachim Gerhadt, German Physician
2 March 2017: Sherma Batson, DL MBE, Former Mayor of Stevenage. (Conferred Posthumously)
Philip Thomas Ireton, JP CC DL.
Michael Cotter, Stevenage Borough Councillor.
Brian Hall CC, Stevenage Borough Councillor.
Hilda Lawrence
Rt. Hon. John Silkin, British Politician.
Rt. Hon. Baroness Williams of Crosby CH PC, British Politician.
1934: Frederick John Perry, British Tennis Player and Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
5 September 2007: Christopher Finney GC, British Army George Cross Recipient.
25 November 2015: Robert Gibson OBE, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Councillor.
26 April 1923: John Wilcox Edge, Founding Partner of Pottery Company Edge Malkin & Company.
26 November 1926: Walter Stanley Monroe, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
26 November 1926: Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab, Maharaja
29 November 1926: Rt. Hon. 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, Prime Minister of Australia.
29 November 1926: Rt. Hon. Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand.
14 March 1928: Sir Oliver Lodge, British Physicist.
27 April 1928: Rt. Hon. 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, British Prime Minister.
27 September 1928: Henry James Johnson.
27 March 1930: Mrs. Lucie Wedgwood.
6 November 1930: Rt. Hon. James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Prime Minister of South Africa.
28 September 1933: Sir Fred Hayward, Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1925–26.
25 June 1936: Sir Francis L'Estrange Joseph, British Industrialist and president of the Federation of British Industries.
25 May 1944: Harry Leese, Stoke City Football Player.
25 October 1945: John Ryder, 5th Earl of Harrowby, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
2 May 1946: George Herbert Barber.
2 May 1946: Florence Ann Farmer.
2 May 1946: Sampson Walker.
30 June 1946: Rev. Thomas Horwood.
26 June 1952: George Henry Meir.
26 November 1953: John Henry Dale.
26 November 1953: Alfred Cromwell Harvey.
31 March 1960: Arthur Hollins, Labour Party Member of Parliament.
31 March 1960: Henry Hopwood, Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1950–51.
31 March 1960: George James Timmis.
31 March 1960: Dr. Arnold Trevor Green.
21 December 1961: William George Barratt.
25 July 1963: Sir Stanley Matthews, Stoke City Football Player.
25 March 1965: William Joel Wood.
27 October 1966: Harry Taylor, Former Town Clerk.
27 March 1974: Horace Barks, Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1951–52.
27 March 1974: William Hancock, Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1961–62.
27 March 1974: George Leonard Barber.
27 March 1974: Blanche Elizabeth Meakin.
27 March 1974: Edwin Holloway, Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1967–68.
27 March 1974: William Charles Rowe.
25 October 1979: Edith Beddow
25 October 1979: Joseph Edward Hulme.
25 October 1979: Arthur Moran, Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1969–70.
18 December 1980: William Screen, Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1976–77.
22 December 1983: Mary Bourne.
22 November 1984: Walter Sisulu, South African Anti Apartheid Activist.
18 December 1986: Thomas William Blackford Beddow.
30 July 1987: Doris Robinson.
29 October 1987: Sir Richard Bailey, Leader in English Pottery Industry, managing director of the Royal Doulton Group.
28 September 1989: Frederick Arthur Cholerton, Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1971–72.
28 September 1989: Cyril Finney, Leader of Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival.
21 December 1989: Mary Stringer, Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1979–80.
28 February 1991: Ronald Southern, Canadian Businessman and Founder of Spruce Meadows.
24 September 1992: John Stuart Forrester, British Politician.
24 September 1992: Lord Ashley of Stoke, British Politician.
24 September 1992: Lady Ashley of Stoke
8 April 1993: Harry Brown.
8 April 1993: Joseph Monks-Neil.
8 April 1993: Leslie Richard Sillitoe.
15 July 1994: Donald Thomas Ward.
18 May 1995: William Frederick Austin.
18 May 1995: Alfred William Clowes.
18 May 1995: James Alexander Matthew Humphreys.
18 May 1995: Charles Herbert Mitchell.
12 October 1995: Hortense Clews, Belgian Resistance Fighter in World War II.
8 December 1995: Dr. H.C.Dietmar Hahlweg.
25 May 2006: George William Stevenson, British Politician.
1 July 2014: Robert Peter Williams, British Singer.
21 May 2015: Gordon Banks, Stoke City and England Goalkeeper.
21 May 2015: Neil Baldwin, Clown.
16 April 2013: Brynmore Vaughn.
Sunderland
19 June 1901: Ernest Vaux, army officer
14 August 1907: John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham
13 October 1909: Andrew Carnegie, industrialist
29 June 1911: Frank Wilson, Premier of Western Australia
10 August 1921: Samuel Storey, politician
10 August 1921: Robert Appleby Bartram, shipbuilder
9 November 1932: John Priestman, shipbuilder
8 October 1951: Joshua Ritson, politician
20 March 1959: Jack Lawson, politician
21 January 1974: Bob Stokoe, manager of Sunderland A.F.C.
21 January 1974: Sunderland Association Football Club
4 February 1982: Frederick Willey, politician
4 February 1982: Thomas Urwin, politician
14 October 1989: Kate Adie, broadcaster
6 June 2006: Tom Cowie, transport entrepreneur
6 June 2006: Denise Robertson, broadcaster
12 July 2007: David Puttnam, film producer
11 November 2013: Joel Batteux, mayor of Saint-Nazaire, France
11 November 2013: Niall Quinn, footballer
7 March 2014: Trevor Mann, engineer
31 August 2004: Peter James Salmon, Swale Borough Alderman.
31 August 2004: Gerald David Thomsett, Swale County Councillor.
2 December 1989: Robert Sheldon, MP
21 July 1995: Tom Pendry, MP
19 May 2014: Alan Keast, Boxing Coach at Tamworth Amateur Boxing Club.
25 September 2015: Ken Grant, Tamworth Mayor 2004.
The Freedom of the Borough of Taunton Deane Has Been Awarded 18 Times.
22 October 2014: Clifford William Bishop, Taunton Deane Borough Councillor.
John Meikle, Taunton Deane Borough Councillor.
Rt. Hon. Sir Edward du Cann KBE, Taunton MP 1956–1987.
Telford and Wrekin
25 May 2012: Corporal Ricky Furgusson MC, British Army Military Cross Recipient. (4th Battalion The Rifles)
September 2014: Michael David Bushell, British 2012 Paralympic Gold Medalist.
December 2015: Walter Lewis, Former Teynham Parish Councillor and Council Chairman and President of the Teynham and Lynsted branch of the Royal British Legion.
13 February 2017: Mrs. Clare Peet, Founder of the St. William of York’s social club for the elderly.
14 October 2013: Sir Alex Ferguson, former manager of Manchester United F.C.
21 November 2015: John Whittaker, Former Mayor of Uttoxeter.
12 September 2012: Sir Rodney Walker, British Sports Administrator and Businessman.
24 June 2014: Neville John Holder, British Singer, Member of the Rock Band Slade.
2010: Reverend Cannon Martin Webster, Former Vicar of Waltham Abbey Church.
June 2014: Ken Stranger.
June 2014: Elaine Fletcher.
2016: Roger Hunt MBE, Former Liverpool and England Football Player Member of the 1966 World Cup Winning Team and a Member of the English Football Hall of Fame.
25 June 2001: Graham Taylor OBE, Manager of Watford Football Club.
2 July 2013: Harold Denningberg, Former Mayor of Waverley
15 April 1944: Herbert E. Balch, founder of the Wells Museum in 1893 and Curator for 60 years.
15 May 1946: Admiral Sir James Somerville, commanded Force H at Gibralter from 1940, supported the sinking of the 'Bismark' in 1941. Lord Lieutenant of Somerset.
6 April 1956: The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's), first presented in 1956, then in 1960 and 1970.
17 March 1974: Right Rev. Edward Henderson, Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1960.
July 2008: Harry Patch, one of the last surviving World War I veterans
15 July 2012: Mary Rand and Danny Nightingale, British Olympic gold medalists
12 December 1990: Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
30 January 2013: Sir Bradley Wiggins CBE, British Cyclist.
Weymouth and Portland
29 June 2016: Poppy Butcher, Dorset Veterans Campaigner.
30 August 2007: David Whelan, owner of Wigan Athletic F.C.
7 December 2011: Lord Smith of Leigh, Labour Party politician
1929: Sir William Wyndham Portal, 2nd Baronet (1850–1931)
27 May 2014: Reverend Bryan Pugh, Church of England Clergyman.
Windsor and Maidenhead
1947: HRH Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh.
1970: HRH Prince of Wales.
1974: Thomas Bailey, Mayor of Maidenhead 1958.
1974: Stanley Platt MBE.
1975: Sir John Smith CH CBE, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.
1980: HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
1988: James Matthews.
1994 Peter Gray MBE.
1995: HRH Duke of Edinburgh.
1996: Geoffrey Blacker OBE, Chief Executive and Director of Finance for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
1999: Sir Nicholas Winton MBE, British Humanitarian.
1999: Harry Parker
2003: Sir Clive Woodward, Rugby Player and Coach.
2008: David Lunn OBE, Chief Executive and Director of Finance for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
2012: David Oram FRICS.
November 2010: Stephen Maddox OBE DL, Chief Executive of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council.
25 April 2016: PC David Phillips, Merseyside Police Constable (Conferred Posthumously).
15 December 2015: Mrs. Annie Northfield, Founder of the "Witham in Bloom" Flower Festival.
1987: Ted Smith
1987: Henry Cawsey MBE, Mayor of Woking 1946.
2000: David Robinson MBE, Mayor of Woking 1973.
8 October 2010: Anne Ansell, Mayor of Woking 1989.
8 October 2010: Rhodney Lofting, Mayor of Woking 1990.
List of mayors of Woking
14 March 2016: Peter Sturgess, Wokingham Without Parish Councillor and Former Council Chairman.
Honorary freemen of Wolverhampton include British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, army officer Douglas Haig, and athlete Denise Lewis.
25 October 1894: Edward Harrison.
12 June 1901: George Baker.
12 June 1901: Charles Caleb Grinstead
12 June 1901: Henry William Goddard
12 June 1901: Henry Ingram Hill
12 June 1901: Herbert Pope
8 October 1901: Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher Bt CB PC MP, British Politician.
31 May 1909: Andrew Carnegie LL.D, Scottish-American Industrialist and Philanthropist.
28 September 1922: Alderman James Gurney Denton.
8 April 1938: John Kennedy Allerton OBE.
4 December 1940: Alderman Harry Thomas Duffield.
4 December 1940: Alderman James Farquarson Whyte MA JP.
6 April 1956: Alderman Joseph Arthur Mason OBE.
30 April 1959: Charles Bertram Barber JP.
21 November 1978: Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk LG CBE.
7 November 1997: Lord Higgins of Worthing KBE DL PC, British Politician.
Clive Thorne, Yaxley Parish Councillor.
1482: John Kendal, secretary to King Richard III
1827: Duke of Wellington
1952: Mary, Princess Royal
1989: Katharine, Duchess of Kent
25 June 2002: John Barry, composer
13 July 2002: Judi Dench, actress
2003: Berwick Kaler, actor and theatre director
2006: Ronald Urwick Cooke, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of York
29 May 1924: Rt. Hon. Earl of Derby KG GCB GCVO TD KStJ PC JP, twice Secretary of State for War
23 July 1929: Hall Caine, author
13 May 1948: Bernard Montgomery, army officer
23 July 1957: Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
28 January 1998: Norman Wisdom, comic actor
20 February 1998: Jack Corrin, First Deemster
15 August 2001: Henry Callow, Second Deemster
9 April 2003: Charles Kerruish, former Speaker of the House of Keys
9 April 2003: Geoff Duke, motorcycle racer
10 July 2009: The Bee Gees, pop group
14 April 2011: Mark Cavendish, cyclist
9 February 2016: Hector Duff MM BEM TH, Isle of Man D-Day Veteran.
22 September 2007: Lord Eames, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland 1986–2006.
20 May 2004: Syd Millar, Irish Rugby Player.
10 December 2004: Rt. Hon. Ian Paisley, British Politician and Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.
28 January 2013: Liam Neeson, British Actor.
Sandy Spence, Mayor of Ballymena
16 December 1955: Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1972: Rt. Hon. Lord Grey of Naunton GCMG GCVO OBE GCStJ PC, Governor of Northern Ireland 1968–1973.
8 May 2013: Mary Peters, Olympic gold medal winner
15 November 2013. Van Morrison, musician
25 May 2016: The Royal College of Nursing, on behalf of all nurses working in Belfast.
26 April 2001: George Best, Manchester United and Northern Ireland Football Player.
2003: Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland Politician.
Causeway Coast and Glens
10 November 2016: Alan Campbell, British Rower.
10 November 2016: Richard Chambers, British Rower.
10 November 2016: Peter Chambers, British Rower.
19 March 2015: Alderman Roy Beggs.
19 March 2015: Alderman Jack McKee.
19 March 2015: Dr. Benedict Daniel Glover.
19 March 2015: Mr. Noel Rogan.
1975: Rt. Hon. Lord Grey of Naunton GCMG GCVO OBE GCStJ PC, Governor of Northern Ireland 1968–1973.
Forty individuals have been given the honour since 1690. Previous recipients include:
1690: Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, English Army General Killed at the Battle of the Boyne.
1786: Rt. Hon. William Pitt, British Prime Minister.
1807: Duke of Wellington, British Army Officer and Later Prime Minister.
1817: Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Peel, British Prime Minister.
1879: Ulysses S. Grant, United States Civil War General and later President.
1924: The Duke of York later George VI.
1944: Sir Basil McFarland, Northern Ireland Politician, Soldier and Businessman.
1945: Sir Bernard Montgomery, British Field Marshal.
16 December 1955: Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister.
1 May 2000: John Hume, Northern Ireland Politician and 1998 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
24 March 2015: The Right Reverend Edward Daly DD, Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry 1974–1993.
24 March 2015: James Mehaffey, Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry and Raphoe 1980–2002.
30 September 1852: Rt. Hon. Lord Panmure, British Politician.
13 September 1915: Andrew Carnegie, Scottish American Philanthropist.
11 August 1936: Lord Hutchinson, British Lawyer and Politician.
19 April 2007: George Reid, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.
14 October 1834: John Lambton, Earl of Durham
13 July 1875: Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
15 April 1884: Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
13 November 1885: George Campbell, Duke of Argyll
13 November 1895: Thomas F. Bayard, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom
28 September 1899: Arthur Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury
2 July 1902: Sir William Ogilvy Dalgleish, 1st Baronet
2 July 1902: Sir John Leng, Member of Parliament
2 July 1902: Alexander Hay Moncur, a former Provost of Dundee
2 July 1902: Alexander Mathewson, a former Lord Provost of Dundee
24 October 1902: Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist
2 November 1906: Whitelaw Reid, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom
30 January 1913: H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
15 May 1919: Douglas Haig, Field-Marshal
September 1919: David Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet
9 September 1924: Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
27 August 1947: Sir Henry Hallett Dale, President of the British Association, President of the Royal Society, Winner of 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
September 2008: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese political prisoner, was granted the Freedom of Dundee in recognition of her achievements in promoting democracy. As Suu Kyi was under house arrest at the time, the award was accepted on her behalf by Anna Roberts, director of Burma Campaign UK.
29 April 1931: Dr. Alan S. Tuke, Surgeon, Major & Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (during WWI)
1 January 2006: Alex McLeish, Scotland national football team Player and Manager.
7 July 2011: Sir Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer of Scotland
Notable recipients of the Freedom of Edinburgh include:
16 November 1808: Samuel Hood, Rear Admiral
22 December 1813: Thomas Coutts, banker
5 January 1814: Walter Scott, novelist and playwright
5 January 1814: George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie
23 February 1814: David Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk
2 March 1814: Robert Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool
2 March 1814: Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth
2 March 1814: Robert Stewart, British Foreign Secretary
2 March 1814: Nicholas Vansittart, Chancellor of the Exchequer
23 March 1814: George Boyle, Earl of Glasgow
23 March 1814: William Johnstone Hope, admiral
25 January 1815: John Crichton-Stuart, industrialist
8 February 1815: John Hope, army officer
10 September 1817: Thomas Charles Hope, professor of chemistry
26 November 1817: Charles Colville, army officer
5 August 1818: Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia
29 August 1821: Nikolaus II, Prince Esterházy
24 October 1821: Robert Otway, admiral
10 September 1823: John Beresford, admiral
1 September 1824: James Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale
5 April 1825: Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux
14 September 1825: Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, and his brother, William
5 October 1825: Robert Gifford, lawyer, judge and politician
26 July 1826: James McGrigor, Director-General of the Army Medical Services
14 October 1829: David Wilkie, artist
24 June 1834: James Abercromby, barrister
24 June 1834: John Campbell, Attorney General for England and Wales
13 September 1834: Five members of the British Science Association:Thomas Brisbane, the Association's president
François Arago, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences
Gerrit Moll, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Utrecht
John Dalton, known for his pioneering research into atomic theory and colour blindness
Robert Brown, Vice-President of the Linnean Society of London
15 September 1834: Charles Grey, British Prime Minister
8 December 1835: Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Polish noble
16 August 1837: John Spencer, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
22 August 1837: Joseph Hume, surgeon and MP
6 September 1838: Astley Cooper, Sergeant Surgeon to the Queen
23 October 1838: Andrew Rutherfurd, Solicitor General for Scotland
4 June 1839: Thomas Babington Macaulay, politician and historian
29 June 1841: Charles Dickens, author
29 June 1841: William Gibson-Craig, MP
14 September 1842: Albert, Prince Consort
14 September 1842: Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, Duke of Buccleuch
14 September 1842: Robert Peel, British Prime Minister
14 September 1842: George Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen
19 January 1843: Richard Cobden, free trade advocate and founder of the Anti-Corn Law League
8 October 1844: Justus von Liebig, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Giessen
14 April 1845: Henry Pottinger, former Governor of Hong Kong
3 November 1845: John Russell, Leader of the Whigs
4 December 1845: Charles Napier, admiral
6 June 1846: George Thompson, abolitionist and human rights lecturer
15 August 1849: Sir James Duke, Lord Mayor of London
1 July 1850: Hugh Gough, army officer
4 April 1853: George Howard, Earl of Carlisle
27 September 1853: William Ewart Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer
30 September 1854: William Molesworth, First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings
21 July 1856: James Broun-Ramsay, Marquess of Dalhousie
13 January 1857: James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff, Lord Advocate of Scotland
21 September 1857: David Livingstone, explorer
29 September 1858: David Roberts, painter
11 July 1861: James Hope Grant, Lieutenant-General
1 April 1863: Henry John Temple, First Lord of the Treasury
11 April 1864: Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general
17 May 1866: Prince Alfred
18 July 1867: William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist
30 October 1867: Benjamin Disraeli, Chancellor of the Exchequer
16 September 1868: Robert Napier, Lieutenant-General
3 November 1868: John Bright, orator and free trade advocate
26 October 1869: James Young Simpson, Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh
15 January 1874: Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist
6 November 1875: William Edward Forster, former Vice-President of the Committee on Education
18 December 1875: Edward Stanley, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
31 August 1877: Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States
13 April 1878: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury
27 November 1882: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury
21 July 1883: Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery
5 August 1885: John Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen
6 May 1886: Albert Victor, Prince of Wales
7 June 1887: Schomberg Kerr, Marquess of Lothian
8 July 1887: Andrew Carnegie, industrialist
11 June 1890: Henry Morton Stanley, explorer
20 August 1891: Daniel Wilson, academic
3 October 1893: George, Duke of York and Earl of Inverness
18 November 1893: Frederick Roberts, army officer
22 December 1893: Victor Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine
10 July 1895: John Hope, Earl of Hopetoun
11 December 1896: John Ritchie Findlay, newspaper owner who funded the construction of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
22 October 1897: William McEwan, MP and brewer
15 June 1898: Garnet Wolseley, army officer
15 June 1898: Joseph Lister, surgeon
29 November 1898: Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
29 November 1898: Herbert Kitchener, army officer
6 July 1899: Edward, Prince of Wales
26 July 1902: Five colonial premiers attending the 1902 Colonial Conference and the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra:Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada
Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia
Richard Seddon, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand
Albert Henry Hime, Prime Minister of Natal
Robert Bond, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
15 April 1903: Alexander Bruce, Lord Balfour of Burleigh
4 December 1903: Donald Smith, philanthropist
21 March 1904: Joseph Hodges Choate, lawyer and diplomat
6 May 1905: Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
22 May 1905: Donald Mackay, Lord Reay
22 May 1905: Flora Stevenson, social reformer
6 July 1905: George White, army officer
19 October 1905: Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
10 May 1907: Four colonial Prime Ministers attending the 1907 Colonial Conference:
Alfred Deakin, Prime Minister of Australia
Joseph Ward, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Leander Starr Jameson, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
Louis Botha, Prime Minister of the Transvaal
30 October 1907: Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
10 December 1909: William Turner, anatomist and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
10 December 1909: Alexander Whyte, clergyman
20 December 1910: H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
28 April 1911: Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, former Viceroy and Governor-General of India
7 July 1911: Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia, and Edward Morris, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
18 April 1912: John Sinclair, Secretary for Scotland
2 November 1912: Richard Haldane, Lord Chancellor, and Andrew Murray, Lord Justice General
26 April 1916: Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia
20 November 1916: William Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand
11 April 1917: Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, Jan Smuts, Minister for Defence of South Africa, and Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner
2 November 1917: Walter Hines Page, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom
24 May 1918: David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
25 January 1919: David Beatty, admiral
28 May 1919: Douglas Haig, army officer
24 June 1919: Charles Edward Price, politician
24 July 1919: Edward, Prince of Wales
29 November 1920: Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
18 July 1921: Arthur Meighen, Prime Minister of Canada
12 March 1923: Robert Horne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
28 September 1923: Ronald Munro Ferguson, Secretary for Scotland
29 October 1923: Robert Cranston, former Lord Provost of Edinburgh
29 October 1923: Wallace Williamson, minister
14 July 1924: Adolphe Max, Mayor of Brussels
28 May 1925: Ramsay MacDonald, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
25 July 1925: Prince Henry
7 June 1926: Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
9 October 1926: Albert, Duke of York and Earl of Inverness
24 November 1926: Bijoy Chand Mahtab, Maharaja of Burdwan Raj, and four colonial Prime ministers:William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada
Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia
Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Walter Stanley Monroe, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
7 September 1927: Alanson B. Houghton, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom
24 November 1927: Harry Lauder, entertainer
21 September 1928: John Stewart-Murray, Duke of Atholl
21 September 1928: John Gilmour, politician
21 September 1928: Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, philanthropist and advocate of women's interests
18 April 1929: James Alfred Ewing, physicist and engineer
19 July 1929: William Adamson, Secretary of State for Scotland
19 July 1929: J. M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan
17 September 1930: Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood
19 November 1930: R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada, James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia, and George Forbes, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
9 January 1931: Hamidullah Khan, Nawab of Bhopal, and V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, Indian politician
3 July 1931: Alexander Cambridge, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
19 June 1934: Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 22nd Viceroy and Governor-General of India, and his wife, Marie Freeman-Thomas
20 May 1935: George, Duke of Kent
10 June 1935: Bhupinder Singh, Maharaja of Patiala, Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia, and John Buchan, 15th Governor General of Canada
30 September 1935: Louise Whitfield Carnegie, philanthropist
1 December 1936: Elizabeth, Duchess of York
28 April 1937: Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
19 April 1938: Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland
19 April 1938: Hugh Macmillan, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
21 April 1939: Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American Ambassador to Great Britain
9 October 1941: John Gilbert Winant, American Ambassaddor to Great Britain
12 October 1942: Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
12 May 1944: Peter Fraser, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand
12 May 1944: Tom Johnston, Secretary of State for Scotland, and John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer
3 October 1944: Victor Hope, former Viceroy of India
15 February 1946: Andrew Cunningham, Admiral of the Fleet, Harold Alexander, Field Marshal, and Arthur Tedder, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
6 March 1946: Bernard Montgomery, Field Marshal
3 October 1946: Dwight D. Eisenhower, General of the Army
16 July 1947: Princess Elizabeth
18 November 1948: Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia
1 March 1949: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
21 August 1950: Lewis Williams Douglas, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom
18 January 1954: Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and his wife, Edwina Mountbatten
28 February 1957: Thomas Corbett, Baron Rowallan
17 October 1962: Olav V of Norway
23 August 1965: Yehudi Menuhin, violinist and conductor
3 April 1969: Alec Douglas-Home, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
11 June 1991: Sean Connery, actor
16 September 2012: Chris Hoy, Olympic cyclist
1956: HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
1 September 1808: Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine
23 November 1808: William Cathcart, soldier and diplomatist
23 November 1808: Samuel Hood, Rear Admiral
1809: James Neild, campaigner for prison reform
1826: George Hay, Marquess of Tweeddale
29 October 1834: John Lambton, Earl of Durham
24 November 1836: William Bentinck, MP for Glasgow
11 January 1843: Richard Cobden, leading member of the Anti-Corn Law League
13 October 1844: Justus von Liebig, chemistry professor
1 July 1856: Colin Campbell, British Army officer
September 1858: David Livingstone, explorer
31 October 1865: William Ewart Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer
3 June 1870: Fox Maule-Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie
28 August 1871: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, philanthropist and social reformer
26 September 1872: Robert Lowe, Chancellor of the Exchequer
20 November 1873: Benjamin Disraeli, Leader of the Opposition
13 September 1877: Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States
5 November 1877: Spencer Cavendish, Leader of the Liberal Party
25 October 1881: William Vernon Harcourt, Home Secretary
20 May 1891: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
28 July 1893: Frederick Roberts, army officer
17 January 1894: George Trevelyan, Secretary for Scotland
2 May 1901: Louise, Princess Royal, and Alexander Duff, Duke of Fife
12 August 1901: Alexander Bruce, Secretary for Scotland, "for his services in facilitation legislation for the city"
12 August 1901: Robert William Hanbury, Minister of Agriculture, "for services rendered in connection with the effort to obtain a licence to establish a municipal telephone exchange"
12 August 1901: Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist, "in recognition of his munificence"
23 April 1907: George, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Mary
1908: Joseph Lister, pioneer of antiseptic surgery
3 May 1911: Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
6 July 1911: Herbert Kitchener, army officer, and three premiers:Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia
Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand
Edward Morris, 2nd Prime Minister of Newfoundland
9 August 1911: Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa
16 August 1912: Robert Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada
8 October 1913: Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and John Stirling-Maxwell, politician
29 June 1917: David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
17 May 1918: Jan Smuts, South African Minister of Defence
November 1919: Raymond Poincaré, President of France
4 January 1921: Edward Grey, former Foreign Secretary
8 March 1921: Edward, Prince of Wales
13 February 1922: Archibald Douglas, Baron Blythswood; Bonar Law, MP; and James Bryce, academic (posthumously)
26 January 1923: George, Duke of York
7 August 1923: Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles
1 October 1923: James Bell, former Lord Provost of Glasgow, and Thomas Lipton, businessman
1924: Donald MacAlister, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow
2 May 1925: Prince Henry
21 September 1927: Elizabeth, Duchess of York
April 1928: Prince George, Duke of Kent
17 May 1928: Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
7 May 1929: John Gilmour, Secretary of State for Scotland
20 June 1929: Marie Curie, scientist known for her research into radioactivity
1929: Daniel Macaulay Stevenson, businessman and philanthropist
22 April 1932: James George Frazer, social anthropologist
6 May 1936: William Forgan Smith, Premier of Queensland
29 July 1941: Peter Fraser, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand
26 May 1944: William Burrell, philanthropist
15 February 1955: Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
19 October 1961: Hector Hetherington, Principal of the University of Glasgow
26 May 1971: Isaac Wolfson, businessman and philanthropist
15 June 1981: Samuel Curran, physicist, and Benno Schotz, artist
16 June 1981: Jim Watt, boxer
4 August 1981: Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid revolutionary. As Mandela was imprisoned at the time, the Freedom was accepted on his behalf by Alex Ekwueme, Vice-President of Nigeria.
21 December 1984: Harry McShane, socialist
24 March 1986: Kenny Dalglish, player-manager of Liverpool F.C.
20 May 1991: George MacLeod, minister of the Church of Scotland
8 November 1999: Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United F.C.
23 February 2007: Norman Macfarlane, businessman and philanthropist
3 March 2009: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese political prisoner. The Freedom was accepted on her behalf by Dr Thuang Htun.
20 August 2010: Billy Connolly, comedian
12 July 2016: Suzanne Grant, Scottish International Football Player.
12 July 2016: Shelley Grant, Former Scotland International Football Player.
1938: Rt. Hon. Earl of Selkirk KT GCMG GBE AFC AE PC QC, British Politician.
19 September 1885: Joseph Chamberlain, former President of the Board of Trade
4 October 1921: David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
17 May 1929: Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York
13 June 1930: Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Stanley Baldwin, former Prime Minister; and Sir Murdoch Macdonald, civil engineer and MP for Inverness
26 June 1931: Edward VIII, Prince of Wales
19 June 1951: Mary, Princess Royal
7 August 1953: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
14 April 1955: Tom Johnston, former Secretary of State for Scotland; Hugh MacKenzie, former Provost of Inverness; and Anthony Miers, Royal Navy officer
11 May 1787: Robert Burns, Scottish Poet
25 July 1864: Sir David Brewster, Scottish Physicist, mathematician, and Astronomer, Inventor of the Kaleidoscope.
11 December 2013: John Houston Green, Former Highland Councillor.
13 August 1814: Sir Walter Scott, Scottish Historical Novelist
1893: Sir James David Marwick, Scottish Lawyer and Historian.
28 August 1908: Sir Thomas Clouston, Scottish Psychiatrist
9 September 1909: Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American Industrialist and Philanthropist
1930: Sir Stanley Cursiter, Scottish Artist.
15 December 1954: Hugh Marwick, Scottish Academic.
1842: HRH Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Royal Consort of Queen Victoria 1840–1861.
1886: Rt. Hon. Earl of Rosebery KG PC, British Foreign Secretary and Later Prime Minister.
28 June 2016: Colin Neilson, Founder and Chairman of Fort William Football Club.
Notable recipients of the Freedom of Perth include:
1833: Laurence Oliphant, MP for Perth
1835: Fox Maule, MP for Perthshire
1841: Robert Wallace, MP for Greenock
6 September 1842: Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. On the same occasion, Victoria was given the Keys to the City, but she immediately returned them, claiming to be "quite satisfied that they cannot possibly be in better hands".
1843: Richard Cobden, MP and free trade advocate
1847: Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia
1852: John Russell, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
26 September 1853: Henry John Temple (Lord Palmerston), Home Secretary
12 September 1861: James Hope Grant, British Army general
1864: Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general
21 January 1868: George Kinnaird, Lord Lieutenant of Perthshire, and James Hope, Royal Navy admiral
1875: Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
1 December 1879: William Ewart Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
8 December 1896: Garnet Wolseley, Field Marshal
22 October 1898: Archibald Primrose, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
8 October 1902: Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist
1911: Andrew Murray, Lord Justice General
29 September 1933: John Buchan, MP for Combined Scottish Universities, and Francis Norie-Miller, insurance company manager
10 August 1935: Albert Frederick Arthur George and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duke and Duchess of York
1938: William Mackenzie, barrister and politician
18 March 1938: Arthur Kinmond Bell, Distiller and philanthropist.
19 July 1947: Queen Elizabeth, wife of George VI, and Archibald Wavell, British Army officer. Elizabeth had received the Freedom once before, in 1935, as the Duchess of York.
27 March 1948: Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
12 May 1956: Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1978: Neil Cameron, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
1982: David Kinnear Thomson, former Lord Provost of Perth
6 July 2012: Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip
June 1902: John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute
1933: Duke of Rothesay
1951: John Crichton-Stuart
1951: Lord David Crichton-Stuart
Skye and Lochalsh
June 1987: Sorley MacLean
St Andrews
18 July 1902: Victor Bruce, Earl of Elgin, Lord Lieutenant of Fife and former Viceroy of India.
18 July 1902: Alexander Bruce, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Secretary for Scotland and Chancellor of the University of St Andrews
18 July 1902: Andrew Carnegie, Lord Rector of the University of St Andrews
September 1852: John Russell, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
14 October 1922: Douglas Haig, Field Marshal
29 August 1928: Albert Frederick Arthur George and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duke and Duchess of York
20 September 1947: Princess Elizabeth
24 October 1952: Tom Johnston, former Secretary of State for Scotland
1953: Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
3 April 2009: Irvin Iffla, former cricketer with Stirling County, in recognition of his long standing commitment and contribution to the public life of the city
23 April 2014: Andy Murray, tennis player, recognising his contribution to tennis both locally and nationally
1912: Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet, of the City of London, President of the National Library of Wales, President of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
1912: David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, British Politician and Public Benefactor.
1912: Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, British Politician and Public Benefactor, President of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
1922: Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister.
1923: Lt. Col. Lewis Pugh Evans, World War I British Army Victoria Cross Recipient.
1923: Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, British Politician.
1923: Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Lewis, British Politician.
1928: Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister.
1936: Sir David Charles Roberts, High Sheriff of Cardiganshire.
1936: Ernest Edmund Henry Malet Vaughan, 7th Earl of Lisburne, High Sheriff of Cardiganshire, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire.
1951: Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister.
1965: Sir David James, Pantyfedwen, Philanthropist and Benefactor.
2011: Herr Fritz Pratschke, Krönberg, for over 40 years' contribution to twinning.
10 September 2008: David Davies, British Swimmer.
10 August 2015: Lee Selby, British Boxer IBF Featherweight Champion
16 October 2015: James Savoy, British Sprint kayaker.
Notable recipients of the Freedom of Cardiff include:
13 August 1888: Alfred Thomas, former Mayor of Cardiff
6 July 1889: William Ewart Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
17 September 1890: Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
27 March 1891: Henry Morton Stanley, journalist and explorer
26 January 1894: Frederick Roberts, army officer
28 September 1895: Edward James Reed, former MP for Cardiff
27 June 1896: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
3 June 1897: Robert Windsor-Clive, former Mayor of Cardiff
2 December 1897: Herbert Kitchener, army officer
29 May 1903: Robert Baden-Powell, army officer
10 March 1905: William Lewis, coal mining magnate
29 June 1905: George, Prince of Wales
24 June 1908: David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer
25 October 1909: Godfrey Morgan, army officer and politician
24 March 1916: Billy Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia
27 October 1916: David Alfred Thomas, industrialist and politician
8 May 1917: William Massey, 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand
27 October 1917: Jan Smuts, South African Minister for Defence
24 July 1918: Robert Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada
26 June 1919: Edward, Prince of Wales
22 October 1926: Prince Albert, Duke of York
26 March 1928: William Reardon Smith and William Tatem, shipowners
25 October 1932: Prince George, Duke of Kent
5 March 1934: John Sankey, Lord Chancellor
26 October 1936: Ivor Windsor-Clive, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, and William Morris, motor manufacturer
27 May 1948: Princess Elizabeth
16 July 1948: Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1 December 1954: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
26 October 1956: Gwilym Lloyd George, Home Secretary
6 July 1969: Charles, Prince of Wales
16 March 1975: James Callaghan, Foreign Secretary, and George Thomas, former Secretary of State for Wales
29 October 1981: Diana, Princess of Wales
2 June 1982: Pope John Paul II
29 January 1985: Cennydd Traherne, Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Glamorgan
25 January 1993: Philip Dunleavy, former Lord Mayor of Cardiff
16 June 1998: Nelson Mandela, former South Africa President and anti-apartheid activist
4 December 2000: Cledwyn Hughes, former Secretary of State for Wales
27 November 2003: Tanni Grey-Thompson, Paralympic wheelchair racer, and Colin Jackson, Olympic athlete
12 April 2006: Tasker Watkins, former president of the WRU and Glamorgan Wanderers
2012: Dame Shirley Bassey, international singer born in Cardiff
17 September 2016: Jade Jones MBE, Olympic Gold Medalist in Taekwondo at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.
1802: Lord Nelson, British Royal Navy Admiral.
10 January 1907: David Alfred Thomas, British Politician and Later Minister of Food Control.
1 October 1908: Sir William Thomas Lewis, Welsh Coal Mining Magnate.
6 July 1923: Henry Seymour Berry, Welsh financier and Industrialist.
6 February 1930: Enoch Morrell, Merthyr Tydfil Mayor 1905–1906.
27 June 1938: Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Royal Air Force Officer.
5 October 1939: Andrew Wilson, Merthyr Tydfil Mayor 1908–1909.
5 October 1939: Frank Treharne James, Merthyr Tydfil Mayor 1907–08.
18 April 1946: Rt. Hon. Clement Richard Attlee, British Prime Minister.
8 July 1948: John Edward Jones, Merthyr Tydfil Mayor 1931–1932.
5 July 1951: Charles James Griffiths, Merthyr Tydfil Mayor: 1922–1923.
28 April 1955: Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, Welsh Colliery Owner and Newspaper Publisher.
23 April 1959: Arthur Lewis Horner, Welsh trade union Leader.
26 April 1962: Lord Evans of Merthyr Tydfil, Welsh Physician.
10 April 1969: Howard Winstone, Welsh Boxer.
13 March 1970: Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister.
22 March 1974: Stanley Beynon.
22 March 1974: David Thomas Davies.
22 March 1974: Felix Mansager, Chairman of The Hoover Company.
23 May 1986: Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican Bishop and Opponent of Apartheid.
23 April 1992: Edward Thomas, Welsh Boxer.
23 April 1992: Stanley Thomas, Welsh Businessman.
5 May 2006: Sir Gilbert Stanley Thomas, Welsh Businessman.
5 August 2013: Sir Mansel Aylward, Cardiff University Professor.
21 July 2008: Michael Sheen, Welsh Actor.
21 July 2008: Margaret Thorne, Long time Neath Volunteer.
9 June 2010: Ken Sawyers, Former Chief Executive of Neath Port Talbot Borough Council
12 March 2011: Bonnie Tyler, Welsh Singer.
16 October 2013: Andrew John, Chairman of Ospreys Rugby Team.
16 October 2013: Colin Price, Welsh Comedian.
16 October 2013: Max Boyce Welsh Entertainer
1909: Rt. Hon. Lord Tredegar, British Politician and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire 1899–1913.
25 September 1945: Sir Bernard Montgomery, British Army Field Marshal.
28 January 2008: Stuart Burrows OBE, Welsh Opera Singer.
10 April 2013: Elaine Morgan OBE FRSL, Welsh Writer.
1 October 2014: Bernard Baldwin MBE, Founder of the Nos Galan road race.
2 August 2016: Dai Dower MBE, Welsh Flyweight Boxer (Conferred Posthumously)
3 October 1892: Henry Morton Stanley, journalist and explorer
21 December 1901: Archibald Primrose, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1948: Bernard Montgomery, army officer
11 August 1995: Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
4 March 2002: John Charles, footballer with Leeds United and Juventus
31 July 2010: Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
20 October 2016: Chris Coleman, Wales National Football Team Manager
Other recipients of the Freedom of Swansea include Charles, Prince of Wales, James Callaghan, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Alan Williams, MP for Swansea West.
13 April 1977: Sir Raymond Gower, British politician and a Welsh MP for 38 years.
19 March 1984: Sir Cennydd Traherne KG TD, Welsh landowner and Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan.
19 March 1984: Sir Hugo Boothby, Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan.
4 March 1991: Mrs. Susan Eva Williams MBE D.StJ JP, Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan.
27 June 1953: Rt. Hon. Clement Davies KC PC, British Politician and Leader of the Liberal Party.
8 October 1923: Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister.
11 November 1963: Arthur Herbert Dodd, Welsh historian.
11 November 1963: Charles Harold Dodd, Welsh religious scholar and Protestant theologian.
28 September 2012: Tom James, British Rower, Olympic Gold Medalist 2008 and 2012.
2004: Lord Hoyle, British politician
1 June 2010: Andrew MacKinlay, British politician.
1 June 2010: The Most Honourable Marquess of Lothian PC QC DL, British politician.
23 March 2012: Lord Janner, British politician
10 September 2014: Sir Graham Watson, British politician
Falkland Islands
10 January 1983: Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher PC, FRS, FRIC, British Prime Minister
1985: Sir Rex Masterman Hunt, Governor of the Falkland Islands 1980–1985.
Viscount Cornbury was the first to receive the Freedom of the City of New York in 1702, and in 1871, Chicago handed out its earliest known Freedom to Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
Among the more unusual recipients of Keys to the City are Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (Detroit, 1980), Sam Born, for inventing a machine that mechanically inserted sticks into lollipops (San Francisco, 1916), and Scarlett's Magic (Corona, 2010), a cat listed in the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records as World's Tallest Cat.
